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Slavery and the British Empire
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Kenneth Morgan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This is an introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, which especially focuses on the two centuries from 1650,
Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Page DuBois
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-25 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous
Slave Empire
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Padraic X. Scanlan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-26 - Publisher: Robinson

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'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times
After Abolition
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Marika Sherwood
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-23 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwoo
Bury the Chains
Language: en
Pages: 500
Authors: Adam Hochschild
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788,