Caribbean Slave Revolts And the British Abolitionist Movement (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)
''What sets Matthews's work apart from past and contemporary works concerning the British abolitionist movement is her assertion that nineteenth-century slave revolts constituted a primary agent of change through the semi-symbiotic relationship they shared with the metropolitan front in Parliament.'' --Florida Historical Quarterly''An innovative, fresh, and succinct study that begs the reader to reconsider past scholarly interpretations of the British movement to abolish slavery in the early nineteenth century.'' --H-Atlantic--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.