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Principles and agents : the British slave trade and its abolition / David Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, David, 1946- author.
- Series:
- David Brion Davis series.
- Yale scholarship online.
- The David Brion Davis series
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--Great Britain--History.
- Slave trade.
- Slavery--Great Britain--History.
- Slavery.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Parliament's decision in 1807 to outlaw British slaving was a key moment in modern world history. 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 trade relied on the power of ordinary people to change the world. British slaving and opposition to it grew in parallel through the 1760s and then increasingly came into conflict both in the public imagination and in political discourse. Looking at the ideological tensions between Britons' sense of themselves as free people and their willingness to enslave Africans abroad, Richardson shows that from the 1770s those simmering tensions became politicized even as British slaving activities reached unprecedented levels, mobilizing public opinion to coerce Parliament to confront and begin to resolve the issue between 1788 and 1807.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Trade
- One. A “Diabolical Traffic”
- Two. Managing the “Train of Uncertainty”
- Three. The “Wheel of Unfathomable Commerce”
- Part Two. Opinions
- Four. “Vulgar Error”
- Five. Contrary to “the Laws of God, and the Rights of Man”
- Six. “Tumults of Imagination”
- Seven. Reaching “the Common People”
- Part Three. Politics
- Eight. “To Interest Men of Every Description in the Abolition of the Traffic”
- Nine. Finding “a Pathway for the Humanities”
- Ten. On the “Heroism of Principle”
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-26290-6
- OCLC:
- 1287138087
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