This is from the series: Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners. This could supplement study of the abolition of the British slave trade and the abolition of slavery within the British Empire itself.

West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807 is a well-researched and clearly argued study that will repay reading by all interested in this ongoing debate.” -Stanley Engerman, University of ...

Why slave owners opposed abolition How British slavery owners fought for compensation The Barbados Slave Code Evidence of British slave ownership in the 1830`s The social and economic impact of ...

What impact did these events have on history ... (Second Middle Passage, British abolition of slavery in 1838, horrible practice of slavery in general.) Ask students to identify the effect ...

West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783–1807 is a well-researched and clearly argued study that will repay reading by all interested in this ongoing debate.' Stanley Engerman, University of ...

That's due to be completed in 2026, but another important new piece of historic research has recently been published, which looks at the British ... the slave trade after abolition, with the ...

On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

Britain’s legacy as a leader in the Atlantic slave trade is often downplayed and overshadowed by the story of abolition, focusing on the moral and humanitarian leaders who lead the movement. This ...

Both the slave trade itself, and colonialism after British abolition, were justified by these linked, usually Christian, narratives. Mendonça regarded the narratives about African slavery as ...