Christopher Leslie Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Leslie Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Antislavery in the Age of Rights: Or, the Rights of Slaves Confront the Right to Slaves
This chapter draws attention to the curious ways in which rights and liberty did – and did not – overlap in the context of eighteenth-century abolitionist movements. Many eighteenth-century anti-slavery activists initially focused on improving enslaved people’s condition through legal rights rather than granting them liberty. In Spanish and French empires, there were fairly elaborate legal codes restricting slaveholders from exercising especially…
The Cambridge History of Rights
The age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they invented them. The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Rights shows that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are better understood as a time of transformation, extending rig…
Antislavery in America, 1760–1820: Comparisons, Contours, Contexts
A broad perspective on the history of American antislavery in the revolutionary era might begin with the geographic and demographic conditions that first made the Atlantic slave trade and colonial slavery controversial. In the mid-eighteenth century, the thirteen colonies occupied the northern end of the long chain of plantation colonies that arced down the western shore of the Atlantic Ocean from the Chesapeake Bay to Rio de Janeiro. In North Am…
Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. To facilitate cros…
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
There was nothing quite like the Atlantic slave trade in the long and varied history of the trafficking in enslaved men, women, and children. Although the trans-Saharan slave trade conveyed captives to North Africa and the Middle East over a longer span of time, no previous system approximated the more than 12.5 million embarked from Africa for the Americas from 1492 to 1867.1 In many eras before and after, slave traders transported their victims…
The origins of ‘legitimate commerce’
The Problems of Slavery
When the Stamp Act crisis erupted, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade or the overthrow of colonial slavery was deemed impossible. Less than a quarter century later, by the time delegates gathered for the Constitutional Convention, both slavery and the Atlantic slave trade were being condemned, not only in the new United States, but also in Britain and France. Between 1765 and 1787, antislavery declarations and protests proliferated and ima…
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
Slavery and Antislavery, 1760–1820
In 1760, the ownership of African slaves was common across the Americas, ubiquitous in Atlantic Africa, and tolerated if not always officially permitted in much of Western Europe. By 1820, a new moral critique of colonial slavery and the Atlantic slave had led to the first organised efforts for their abolition. It would seem that the revolutionary era brought with it the beginning of the end for slavery in the Atlantic world. Yet, at the same tim…
White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
This book sets out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition reminds us that this text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon this work; all are judged in…
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
There was nothing quite like the Atlantic slave trade in the long and varied history of the trafficking in enslaved men, women, and children. Although the trans-Saharan slave trade conveyed captives to North Africa and the Middle East over a longer span of time, no previous system approximated the more than 12.5 million embarked from Africa for the Americas from 1492 to 1867. 1 In many eras before and after, slave traders transported their victim…
The British Government and the Slave Trade: Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83
The British Government and the Slave Trade:Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83 Christopher L. Brown In what ways did parliament influence the British slave trade during the eighteenth century? How did the politics of the Atlantic slave trade figure in parliamentary politics in the years when the British seized the largest share of the international traffic in African labour? In the present state of research, such questions remain surprisingly …
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. By Adam Hochschild (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xi plus 468pp.)
Journal Article Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. By Adam Hochschild (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xi plus 468pp.) Get access Christopher Leslie Brown Christopher Leslie Brown Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 200–202, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0124 Published: …
Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade
The British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, author of the first history of the Anglo-American antislavery movements, attributed the public campaigns against the slave trade to the influence of religious progress. The 1807 abolition of the American and British slave trades represented, he thought, the fulfilment of Christian teachings and a vindication of the faith. In other cultures and at other times, Clarkson acknowledged, religious leaders had e…
Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book surveys the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. To facilitate cross-cultural comp…
White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
This book sets out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition reminds us that this text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon this work; all are judged in…
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
The British Government and the Slave Trade: Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83
The British Government and the Slave Trade:Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83 Christopher L. Brown In what ways did parliament influence the British slave trade during the eighteenth century? How did the politics of the Atlantic slave trade figure in parliamentary politics in the years when the British seized the largest share of the international traffic in African labour? In the present state of research, such questions remain surprisingly …
Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade
The British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, author of the first history of the Anglo-American antislavery movements, attributed the public campaigns against the slave trade to the influence of religious progress. The 1807 abolition of the American and British slave trades represented, he thought, the fulfilment of Christian teachings and a vindication of the faith. In other cultures and at other times, Clarkson acknowledged, religious leaders had e…
Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book surveys the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. To facilitate cross-cultural comp…
The British Government and the Slave Trade: Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83
The British Government and the Slave Trade:Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83 Christopher L. Brown In what ways did parliament influence the British slave trade during the eighteenth century? How did the politics of the Atlantic slave trade figure in parliamentary politics in the years when the British seized the largest share of the international traffic in African labour? In the present state of research, such questions remain surprisingly …
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. By Adam Hochschild (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xi plus 468pp.)
Journal Article Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. By Adam Hochschild (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xi plus 468pp.) Get access Christopher Leslie Brown Christopher Leslie Brown Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 200–202, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0124 Published: …
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
There was nothing quite like the Atlantic slave trade in the long and varied history of the trafficking in enslaved men, women, and children. Although the trans-Saharan slave trade conveyed captives to North Africa and the Middle East over a longer span of time, no previous system approximated the more than 12.5 million embarked from Africa for the Americas from 1492 to 1867. 1 In many eras before and after, slave traders transported their victim…
The Problems of Slavery
When the Stamp Act crisis erupted, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade or the overthrow of colonial slavery was deemed impossible. Less than a quarter century later, by the time delegates gathered for the Constitutional Convention, both slavery and the Atlantic slave trade were being condemned, not only in the new United States, but also in Britain and France. Between 1765 and 1787, antislavery declarations and protests proliferated and ima…
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
Slavery and Antislavery, 1760–1820
In 1760, the ownership of African slaves was common across the Americas, ubiquitous in Atlantic Africa, and tolerated if not always officially permitted in much of Western Europe. By 1820, a new moral critique of colonial slavery and the Atlantic slave had led to the first organised efforts for their abolition. It would seem that the revolutionary era brought with it the beginning of the end for slavery in the Atlantic world. Yet, at the same tim…
White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
This book sets out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition reminds us that this text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon this work; all are judged in…
The origins of ‘legitimate commerce’
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
There was nothing quite like the Atlantic slave trade in the long and varied history of the trafficking in enslaved men, women, and children. Although the trans-Saharan slave trade conveyed captives to North Africa and the Middle East over a longer span of time, no previous system approximated the more than 12.5 million embarked from Africa for the Americas from 1492 to 1867.1 In many eras before and after, slave traders transported their victims…
Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. To facilitate cros…
Antislavery in America, 1760–1820: Comparisons, Contours, Contexts
A broad perspective on the history of American antislavery in the revolutionary era might begin with the geographic and demographic conditions that first made the Atlantic slave trade and colonial slavery controversial. In the mid-eighteenth century, the thirteen colonies occupied the northern end of the long chain of plantation colonies that arced down the western shore of the Atlantic Ocean from the Chesapeake Bay to Rio de Janeiro. In North Am…
Antislavery in the Age of Rights: Or, the Rights of Slaves Confront the Right to Slaves
This chapter draws attention to the curious ways in which rights and liberty did – and did not – overlap in the context of eighteenth-century abolitionist movements. Many eighteenth-century anti-slavery activists initially focused on improving enslaved people’s condition through legal rights rather than granting them liberty. In Spanish and French empires, there were fairly elaborate legal codes restricting slaveholders from exercising especially…
The Cambridge History of Rights
The age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they invented them. The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Rights shows that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are better understood as a time of transformation, extending rig…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (12 works) · History (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Atlantic slave trade (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Economic history (4 works)