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230 Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Africa 41 (2011) 227-234 Peterson, Derek R. (ed.), Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic , Athens, Ohio University Press, 2010, 235pp., 9780821419021, $64.95 (cloth)/$28.95. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic argues that the history of abolitionism was not just a singular episode in the history of British liberalism. In fact, according to its editor, Derek Peterson, the book aims to expand the geographic and tem- poral field of abolitionism while also reconsidering the moral and political motivations behind abolishing the slave trade. Peterson’s vision is to engage the divergent study of abo- litionist discourse, the scholarship on slavery, and the historiography on African intellectual and political life in an effort to recognize the wider symbolism and ideology of abolition- ism. This book’s expansive dialogue shows that abolitionism was a ‘joint production, not authored by a few British activists but by a cosmopolitan set of actors, working on a dispa- rate set of projects from a variety of positions’ (4). The collection itself comprises seven essays that broach a range of topics including Afri- can political ethics, the religious impetus underlying the abolition of the
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Published: Jan 1, 2011
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