The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law [electronic resource] / Jenny S. Martinez.
Martinez, Jenny S.
2012
K3267 .M37 2012eb
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Title The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law [electronic resource] / Jenny S. Martinez.
Author Martinez, Jenny S.
ISBN 9780195391626 hardcover
9780199753307 electronic book
Publication Details Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (254 p.)
Call Number K3267 .M37 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 341.4/8
Summary "There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights law, 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. Originating in England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. Here then, buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, are the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international courts targeting states and non-state transnational actors while working on behalf the world's most persecuted peoples--captured West Africans bound for the slave plantations of the Americas. Fueled by a powerful thesis and novel evidence, Martinez's work will reshape the fields of human rights history and international human rights law"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction
Chapter One: International Law, Slavery and the Idea of International Human Rights
Chapter Two: British Abolitionism and Diplomacy, 1807-1817
Chapter Three: The United States and the Slave Trade: 1776-1824
Chapter Four: The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Chapter Five:Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
Chapter Six: Hostis Humanis Generis: Enemies of Mankind
Chapter Seven: The Final Abolition of the Slave Trade
Chapter Eight: A Bridge to the Future: Links Between the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Modern International Human Rights Movement
Chapter Nine: International Human Rights Law and International Courts: Rethinking their Origins and Future.

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