Principles and agents : the British slave trade and its abolition / David Richardson.
Parliament's decision in 1807 to outlaw British slaving was a key moment in modern world history. In this magisterial work, historian David Richardson challenges claims that this event was largely due to the actions of particular individuals and emphasizes instead that abolition of the British slave...
| Uniform Title: | David Brion Davis series.
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | David Brion Davis series.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 375 pages : map ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: Interpreting British slave trade abolition
- A "diabolical traffic" British slave trading, 1640-1807
- Managing the "train of uncertainty" Liverpool and the bight of Biafra
- The "wheel of unfathomable commerce" credit, incentives, and sustainability "Vulfar error" questioning transatlantic slavery in the age of Locke
- Contrary to "the laws of God, and the rights of man" the intellectual roots of the British anti-slave trade movement
- t"Thults of imagination" literature and British anti-slave trade sentiment
- Reaching "the common people" newspapers, African voices, and politicizing the slave trade
- "To interest men of every description in the abolition of the traffic" mobilization and the "take off" of abolitionism
- Finding "a pathway for the humanities" the politics of slave trade abolition, 1797-1807
- On the "heroism of principle" reflecting on the British slave trade and its abolition.