Protecting Slaves and Aborigines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5841971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina Twomey (0000-0002-6023-3987, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-29 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8684 • E-ISSN: 1533-8584 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.10 |
| OpenAlex | W2784540748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
The historiography on protection in the nineteenth-century British Empire often assumes that British humanitarians were the progenitors of protection schemes. In contrast, this article argues that the position of Protector or Guardian for slaves and Indigenous peoples in the British Empire drew on Spanish, Dutch, and French legal precedents. The legal protections and slave codes operative in these European colonies are compared to British colonial territories, where there was no imperial slave code and no clear status of slaves at common law. Drawing on debates in the House of Commons, Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry, and the published work of abolitionists and anti-slavery societies, the article examines how the pressure for amelioration in the British Empire coincided with the acquisition of new colonies that offered ready-made models for slave protection. British reformers combined their calls for greater protection for slaves with their extant knowledge of European protective regimes
British Empire · Colonialism · Empire · Extant taxon · Genealogy · Guardian · Historiography · House of Commons · Indigenous · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
British West Indian slavery, 1750-1834
Aborigines in colonial Victoria, 1835-86
Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1420–1807
A New System of Slavery
The Making of New World Slavery
Uprooting, Rerooting
The West Indies and the Development of Colonial Government 1801-1834
British Policy towards the Amerindians in British Guiana, 1803-1873
Chinese Miners, Headmen, and Protectors on the Victorian Goldfields, 1853–1863
The Opposition of the Law to the Law”
Humanitarian intervention
We Are Sure of Your Sympathy
The slaves and their protectors
Pickering, Protector of Chinese
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |