Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System

How the suppression of the slave trade and the "e;disposal"e; of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianism Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy's Atlantic squadrons seized nearly two thousand slave ships, "e;re capturing"e; almost two hundred thousand enslaved people and resettling them as liberated Africans across sites from Sierra Leone and Cape Colony to the West Indi...