Society, Politics & Law
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
...caste a moral stain on the British Empire. Whilst it was to take a number of decades for slavery to be fully denounced / abolished, the distancing from American slaveholders (rejecting their rejectors) as an ‘un-British’ state of affairs was of crucial importance. This was in part because it resulted in the promotion of a new moral basis for the empire through the...