The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 January 2012
- ISBN 9780195391626
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 163x234x25 mm
- Weight 533 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Jenny Martinez shows in this groundbreaking volume that the international human rights movement has its roots in one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. 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, buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, Martinez uncovers 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.
MoreLong description:
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 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.
Martinez (Stanford Law School) has written a highly readable work that breaks new ground on human rights and international law.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. International Law, Slavery and the Idea of International Human Rights
2. British Abolitionism and Diplomacy, 1807-1817
3. The United States and the Slave Trade: 1776-1824
4. The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
5. Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
6. Hostis Humanis Generis: Enemies of Mankind
7. The Final Abolition of the Slave Trade
8. A Bridge to the Future: Links Between the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Modern International Human Rights Movement
9. International Human Rights Law and International Courts: Rethinking their Origins and Future
