The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795: Jamaica, the West India Interest at Westminster and the Campaign to Preserve the Slave Trade

by McCahill, Michael W.
ISBN: 9781118932124
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Overview

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
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: McCahill, Michael W.
  • ISBN: 9781118932124
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 200
  • Publication Year: 2014
Language: English