Michael W McCahill: The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788 - 1795
The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788 - 1795
Buch
- Jamaica, the West India Interest at Westminster and the Campaign to Preserve the Slave Trade
- Wiley, 11/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781118932124
- Bestellnummer: 5419315
- Umfang: 200 Seiten
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Copyright-Jahr: 2014
- Gewicht: 386 g
- Maße: 226 x 150 mm
- Stärke: 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.11.2014
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade in Jamaica during the last two decades of the 18th century.* Represents the best single source on the efforts in Britain to prevent the abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica in the late 18th century
* Offers background context for Fuller's letters and provides new information about the effectiveness of the West India interest in Britain's houses of parliament
* Provides the fullest accounting of the campaign orchestrated by Jamaica and other Caribbean islands to turn back the abolitionist attack on the slave trade and plantation regime
* Features a wealth of information about the slave trade, the conditions in which Jamaican slaves lived and worked, the racial attitudes of planters and their overseas representatives
* Reveals the efforts made by Fuller to appease the abolition movement through modest steps to deflect criticisms of the planter regime