Slave trade and the origins of international human rights law

By:

Martinez, Jenny S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Oxford University Press 2012Description: 1 online resource (254 p.) illISBN:

9780190259754

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

341.48 23 MA-S

LOC classification:

K3267 .M37 2012

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Oxford scholarship online

Summary: There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.

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