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transatlantic axis in the late eighteenth century and extending to encompass the settler colonies including the United States, which brought new Indigenous and foreign subjects within Anglophone humanitarians’ view in the early nineteenth century. Our contributors pay special attention to Australia as a focal point, initially of British metropolitan humanitarian concern, and then as a settler colonial hub of international humanitarianism in its own
humanitarianism, development, and Britain's changing global role. The different narratives that coalesced around the campaign in Britain raise important questions about how the public experienced Britain's imperial decline. Did their moral geography change as they lost their empire? Was there a role for the empire/Commonwealth within the framework of international humanitarianism? Which imperial legacies remained intact in the FFHC, which were adapted, and which discarded? To answer these questions, this chapter focuses on three key conceptualisations of the FFHC: the first