- Abolitionismus, Abolitionisme, Mouvements antiesclavagistes, Histoire
An account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 466
- Publisher
- MACMILLAN UK, PAN, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Swedish, und, German
- ISBN
- 9781665240680
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