The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law

The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780195391626
ISBN-13 : 0195391624
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Book Synopsis The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law by : Jenny S. Martinez

Download or read book The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law written by Jenny S. Martinez and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.


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