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The Slave Trade, Abolition and the Long History of International Criminal Law: The Recaptive and the Victim

The Slave Trade, Abolition and the Long History of International Criminal Law: The Recaptive and the Victim

Haslam, Emily

Hardcover

General LawGeneral World HistoryNaval History

ISBN10: 1138348899
ISBN13: 9781138348899
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 4 2019
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and abolition. Yet, as this book shows, the slave trade and abolition resound in international criminal law in multiple ways. Its central focus lies in a close examination of the often-controversial litigation, in the first part of the nineteenth century, arising from British efforts to capture slave ships, much of it before Mixed Commissions. With archival-based research into this litigation, it explores the legal construction of so-called 'recaptives' (slaves found on board captured slave ships). The book argues that, notwithstanding its promise of freedom, the law actually constructed recaptives restrictively. In particular, it focused on questions of intervention rather than recaptives' rights. At the same time it shows how a critical reading of the archive reveals that recaptives contributed to litigation in important, but hitherto largely unrecognized, ways. The book is, however, not simply a contribution to the history of international law. Efforts to deliver justice through international criminal law continue to face considerable challenges and raise testing questions about the construction - and alternative construction - of victims.

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