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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Table of Contents:
- International law, slavery and the idea of international human rights
- British abolitionism and diplomacy, 1807-1817
- The United States and the slave trade: 1776-1824
- The courts of mixed commission for the abolition of the slave trade
- Am I not a man and a brother?
- Hostis humanis generis: enemies of mankind
- The final abolition of the slave trade
- A bridge to the future: links between the abolition of the slave trade and the modern international human rights movement
- International human rights law and international courts: rethinking their origins and future.