The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Laws

Description

Jenny Martinez argues that the foundation of the movement that we know today as human rights was a product of one of the nineteenth century’s central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.

Creator

Martinez, Jenny

Publisher

Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contributor

Felipe Gonzalez, Jorge

Language

English

Type

Book

Posted in Curated Research, The In-Between and tagged abolitionism, human rights, In-between, modernity, Slave trade.