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that it comes as no surprise that the
motivations
and
goals
of
abolitionists were complex and
contingent. Breaking down the
rigid
differentiation
between
‘humanitarian’
and
‘imperial’
should not mean resorting to
apologetics of empire, but rather
doing the most important work of
history,
explaining
seeming
contradictions and restoring the
vibrant detail of the past. Abolition
and Empire makes precisely this
type
of
intervention,
and
illuminates
‘the
ideological,
nationalistic, and practical forces
that precluded international cooperation’ (p. 180) on the universal
moral imperative to end slavery
and the slave trade.

Book: Abolition and Empire in
Sierra Leone and Liberia
Author: Bronwen Everill
Publisher:
Basingstoke,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012,
ISBN: 978-1137028679; 248
pp.; Price: £55.00
Reviewer:
Ms. Christine
Whyte
Citation: Ms. Christine Whyte,
review of Abolition and Empire
in Sierra Leone and Liberia,
(review no. 1385)
http://www.history.ac.uk/revi
ews/review/1385
Date accessed: 5 February,
2016

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