The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People |
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Stephen Farrell; Melanie Unwin and James Walvin
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Pages: 360 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0748633146
Pub: Edinburgh University press
Pub date: 2007-05-25
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 284848
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This volume contains series of essays on a range of topics related to slavery and the abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire in 1807. Essays include:
William A Pettigrew on Parliament and the Escalation of the Slave Trade, 1690-1714;
Christopher L Brown on The British Government and the Slave Trade: Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83
Seymour Drescher on Public Opnion and Parliament and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
Kathy Chater on Black People in England, 1660-1807
Gelien Matthews on Trinidad: A Model Colony for British Slave Trade Abolition
Cassandra Pybus on 'Less Favourable Specimen':The Abolitionist Response to Self-Emancipated Slaves in Sierra Leone, 1793-1808
Hilary MacDonald Beckles on The Wilberforce Song: How Enslaved Caribbean Blacks Heard British Abolitionists
David Richardson on The Ending of the British Slave Trade in 1807: The Economic Context
Stephen Farrell on 'Contrary to the Principles of Justice, Humanity and Sound Policy': The Slave Trade, Parliamentary Politics and the Abolition Act, 1807
Marcus Wood on Packaging Liberty and Marketing the Gift of Freedom: 1807 and the Legacy of Clarkson's Chest
Caroline Blessey on The Black Presence in England and Wales after the Abolition Act, 1807-1930
Mike Kaye on The Development of the Anti-Slavery Movement after 1807
It also includes an illustrated catalogue to the exhibition held in the Houses of Parliament in London in 2007 to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.
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