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Author Richardson, David, 1946- author.
Title Principles and agents : the British slave trade and its abolition / David Richardson.
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Copyright date ©2022



Descript 1 online resource (viii, 375 pages) : maps.
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Trade -- One. A "Diabolical Traffic" -- Two. Managing the "Train of Uncertainty" -- Three. The "Wheel of Unfathomable Commerce" -- Part Two. Opinions -- Four. "Vulgar Error" -- Five. Contrary to "the Laws of God, and the Rights of Man" -- Six. "Tumults of Imagination" -- Seven. Reaching "the Common People" -- Part Three. Politics -- Eight. "To Interest Men of Every Description in the Abolition of the Traffic" -- Nine. Finding "a Pathway for the Humanities" -- Ten. On the "Heroism of Principle" -- Notes -- Index
ISBN 0300262906 (electronic book)
9780300262902 (electronic bk.)
9780300250435
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Author Richardson, David, 1946- author.
Series The David Brion Davis series
David Brion Davis series.
Subject Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History.
Slavery -- Great Britain -- History.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 375 pages) : maps.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Trade -- One. A "Diabolical Traffic" -- Two. Managing the "Train of Uncertainty" -- Three. The "Wheel of Unfathomable Commerce" -- Part Two. Opinions -- Four. "Vulgar Error" -- Five. Contrary to "the Laws of God, and the Rights of Man" -- Six. "Tumults of Imagination" -- Seven. Reaching "the Common People" -- Part Three. Politics -- Eight. "To Interest Men of Every Description in the Abolition of the Traffic" -- Nine. Finding "a Pathway for the Humanities" -- Ten. On the "Heroism of Principle" -- Notes -- Index
ISBN 0300262906 (electronic book)
9780300262902 (electronic bk.)
9780300250435
Author Richardson, David, 1946- author.
Series The David Brion Davis series
David Brion Davis series.
Subject Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History.
Slavery -- Great Britain -- History.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History.

Subject Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History.
Slavery -- Great Britain -- History.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 375 pages) : maps.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Trade -- One. A "Diabolical Traffic" -- Two. Managing the "Train of Uncertainty" -- Three. The "Wheel of Unfathomable Commerce" -- Part Two. Opinions -- Four. "Vulgar Error" -- Five. Contrary to "the Laws of God, and the Rights of Man" -- Six. "Tumults of Imagination" -- Seven. Reaching "the Common People" -- Part Three. Politics -- Eight. "To Interest Men of Every Description in the Abolition of the Traffic" -- Nine. Finding "a Pathway for the Humanities" -- Ten. On the "Heroism of Principle" -- Notes -- Index
ISBN 0300262906 (electronic book)
9780300262902 (electronic bk.)
9780300250435

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