Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and map
- Cast of main characters
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction: ‘A soul reared in the lap of liberty’
- 1 ‘Plausible and audacious frauds’: The theatre of imperial politics and reform
- 2 ‘A Daemon behind the Curtain’: Reputation, parliamentary politics and political spin
- 3 Green-bag-makers and blood-hunters: Information management and espionage
- 4 ‘In return for services rendered’: Liberated Africans or prize(d) slaves?
- 5 ‘The dishonorable Court of Gothamites’: Corrupting abolition
- 6 ‘Under the cloak of liberty’: Seditious libel, state security and the rights of ‘free-born Englishmen’
- 7 ‘Unruly subjects’: Political removal and the problem of colonial constitutions
- 8 ‘A conspiracy of the darkest and foulest nature’: The placard affair
- 9 Bring up the body: The many escapes of ‘Alexander Edwards’
- Epilogue: An infamous end
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and map
- Cast of main characters
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction: ‘A soul reared in the lap of liberty’
- 1 ‘Plausible and audacious frauds’: The theatre of imperial politics and reform
- 2 ‘A Daemon behind the Curtain’: Reputation, parliamentary politics and political spin
- 3 Green-bag-makers and blood-hunters: Information management and espionage
- 4 ‘In return for services rendered’: Liberated Africans or prize(d) slaves?
- 5 ‘The dishonorable Court of Gothamites’: Corrupting abolition
- 6 ‘Under the cloak of liberty’: Seditious libel, state security and the rights of ‘free-born Englishmen’
- 7 ‘Unruly subjects’: Political removal and the problem of colonial constitutions
- 8 ‘A conspiracy of the darkest and foulest nature’: The placard affair
- 9 Bring up the body: The many escapes of ‘Alexander Edwards’
- Epilogue: An infamous end
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Imperial UnderworldAn Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order, pp. 301 - 318Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016