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In Defence of the Slave Trade: Stephen Fuller, Jamaica and the West India P Upplaga 1
The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade in Jamaica during the last two decades of the 18th century.
Represents the best single source on the efforts in Britain to prevent the abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica in the late 18th centuryOffers background context for Fuller’s letters and provides new information about the effectiveness of the West India interest in Britain’s houses of parliamentProvides the fullest accounting of the campaign orchestrated by Jamaica and other Caribbean islands to turn back the abolitionist attack on the slave trade and plantation regimeFeatures a wealth of information about the slave trade, the conditions in which Jamaican slaves lived and worked, the racial attitudes of planters and their overseas representativesReveals the efforts made by Fuller to appease the abolition movement through modest steps to deflect criticisms of the planter regime
Upplaga: 1a upplagan
Utgiven: 2014
ISBN: 9781118932124
Förlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Sidor: 200 st
The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade in Jamaica during the last two decades of the 18th century.
Represents the best single source on the efforts in Britain to prevent the abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica in the late 18th centuryOffers background context for Fuller’s letters and provides new information about the effectiveness of the West India interest in Britain’s houses of parliamentProvides the fullest accounting of the campaign orchestrated by Jamaica and other Caribbean islands to turn back the abolitionist attack on the slave trade and plantation regimeFeatures a wealth of information about the slave trade, the conditions in which Jamaican slaves lived and worked, the racial attitudes of planters and their overseas representativesReveals the efforts made by Fuller to appease the abolition movement through modest steps to deflect criticisms of the planter regime
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