The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law / Jenny S. Martinez.
"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 con...
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Oxford ; New York :
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[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Britain and the slave trade : the rise of abolitionism
- The United States and the slave trade : an ambivalent foe
- The courts of mixed commission for the abolition of the slave trade
- Am I not a man and a brother?
- Hostis humani generis : enemies of mankind
- From crisis to success : the final abolition of the slave trade
- A bridge to the future : links to contemporary international human rights law
- International human rights law and international courts : rethinking their origins and future.