The Atlantic slave trade and British abolition, 1760-1810
By: Roger Anstey
Series: Cambridge Commonwealth Series
Publisher: Humanities Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780391003712
Copyright date: 1975
Subjects: Slave-trade -- Africa, West.; Antislavery movements -- Great Britain.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [426]-433.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Atlantic slave trade, 1761-1810; title: 2. The profitability of the slave trade, 1761-1810; title: 3. The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa; title: 4. Eighteenth-century thought and anti-slavery; title: 5. Theology and reform; title: 6. Anti-slavery values in literature; title: 7. The evangelical world-view; title: 8. Evangelical theology and abolition; title: 9. Origins of Quaker action against the slave trade; title: 10. The transition to political agitation; title: 11. The campaign for abolition, 1787-1796; title: 12. The opposition to abolition, to 1796; title: 13. The progress of abolition, 1796-1804; title: 14. Wind of change: May 1804-February 1806; title: 15. Abolition: 1806; title: 16. The kill