- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Kenneth Morgan
- Published:
- 2007
- Publisher:
- Oxford University PressOxford
Abstract When the British slave trade reached its peak in the quarter-century before the American Revolution, few could have predicted that the entire ‘Guinea’ traffic from Africa would be abolished by parliamentary statute shortly after the turn of the nineteenth century. Slavery and the slave trade appeared to be so much a part of the peopling and maritime strength of the British Empire, and so necessary to maintain sugar plantations in the Caribbean, that to imagine a British imperial world without a regular supply of new black cargoes would have been fanciful.
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- What is "The Abolition of the British Slave Trade" about?
- Abstract When the British slave trade reached its peak in the quarter-century before the American Revolution, few could have predicted that the entire ‘Guinea’ traffic from Africa would be abolished by parliamentary statute shortly after the turn of the nineteenth century.
- Who wrote "The Abolition of the British Slave Trade"?
- Kenneth Morgan