Publisher's Synopsis
The historical study shows that between the end of the 18th and the middle of the 19th century, German activists increasingly networked with abolitionists in the Atlantic region and introduced their own anti-slavery-critical statements into the overarching discourse. The investigation of German opponents of slavery expands and changes not only the view of the abolition movement as a cross-border historical phenomenon, but also the German area as part of the so-called Atlantic hinterland.