Description: Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century.
Review Quotes: Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy have drawn together a marvelous array of authors that includes many of the best now at work in this area. Liberated Africans will be of interest to Africanists the world over, as well as Caribbeanists, Latin Americanists, and scholars of Atlantic History and African American Studies. ---Peter H. Wood, Duke University