Legal History


The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law

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Hardback Dec 2011 ISBN13: 9780195391626ISBN10: 0195391624 A groundbreaking interpretation of the roots of human rights law, locating the birth of the movement in one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the effort to ban the international slave trade.
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