The British slave trade : abolition, parliament and people : including the illustrated catalogue of the parliamentary exhibition in Westminster Hall, 23 May - 23 September 2007 / edited by Stephen Farrell, Melanie Unwin and James Walvin

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Notes: "This volume is a supplement to Parliamentary history, vol. 26 (2007)"--Title page verso.; NMAF copy 39088019788892 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III.
Contents: Parliament and the escalation of the slave trade, 1690-1714 / William A. Pettigrew -- The British government and the slave trade: early parliamentary enquiries, 1713-83 / Christopher L. Brown -- Public opinion and parliament in the abolition of the British slave trade / Seymour Drescher -- Black people in England, 1660-1807 / Kathy Chater -- Trinidad: a model colony for British Slave trade abolition / Gelien Matthews -- "A less favourable specimen": the abolitionist response to self-emancipated slaves in Sierra Leone, 1793-1808 / Casssandra Pybus -- The Wilberforce song: how enslaved Caribbean blacks heard British abolitionists / Hilary McDonald Beckles -- The ending of the British slave trade in 1807: the economic context / David Richardson -- "Contrary to the principles of justice, humanity, and sound policy": the slave trade, parliamentary politics, and the Abolition Act, 1807 / Stephen Farrell -- Appendix: survey of the House of Commons on the abolition of the slave trade, February 1807 -- Packaging liberty and marketing the gift of freedom: 1807 and the legacy of Clarkson's chest / Marcus Wood -- The black presence in England and Wales after the Abolition Act, 1807-1930 / Caroline Bressey -- The development of the anti-slavery movement after 1807 / Mike Kaye

Author: Farrell, Stephen 1968-; Unwin, Melanie; Walvin, James; Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust