Proslavery Britain

By Paula E. Dumas

Subjects: Slavery, great britain, Abolitionists, Antislavery movements, great britain

Description: "Proslavery Britain tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire at the height of the slavery debates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art and literature to propaganda and parliamentary papers, it explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation"--