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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to propaganda, scientific studies, and parliamentary papers, Proslavery Britain explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation. It finds that proslavery arguments and rhetoric were carefully crafted to justify slavery, defend the colonies, and attack the abolition movement at the height of the slavery debates.
Reviews
“The book consists of three parts. The introduction and opening chapter present proslavery positions from economic, strategic, historicist, legalistic, paternalistic, moral, and religious points of view. … there is much here to interest scholars of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, as well as anyone interested in the history of political lobbying, and the book offers a very useful starting point for future studies of British proslavery.” (Brycchan Carey, American Historical Review, Vol. 122 (2), April 2017)
“As scholarly focus on Britain's era of colonial slavery continues to grow, Paula Dumas has provided a valuable and wide-ranging analysis of pro-slavery advocacy in the age of abolition. This book reminds us that while the slave-owners lost the battle over abolition, they won the war over racial subordination.”-Nicholas Draper, Co-director of Structure and Signification of British Caribbean Slave-ownership 1763–1833 project, University College London, England
“Comprehensive in its range and focus, Proslavery Britain offers a fascinating insight into proslavery arguments and rhetoric during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This painstaking study promises to reshape our understanding of slavery debates in Britain, not least through its attention to things such as proslavery arts and culture. We have long needed a book of this kind and Dumas has risen to the task magnificently.”
-John Oldfield, Professor of History, Wilberforce Institute forthe study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, England
About the author
Paula E. Dumas received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Edinburgh, UK. The University selected her work on proslavery arguments for the Jeremiah Dalziel Prize in British History.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Proslavery Britain
Book Subtitle: Fighting for Slavery in an Era of Abolition
Authors: Paula E. Dumas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137558589
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57820-4Published: 03 February 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55858-9Published: 15 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 223
Topics: Political History, Economic History, History of Britain and Ireland, African History, Modern History, Social History