Slavery & Abolition

Jamaica, writes Morris Cargill, has been a British possession since the times of Cromwell.

From all the evidence, writes Sudie Duncan Sides, it is abundantly clear that it was harder to be a slave than a plantation mistress; but the memoirs of the time do not admit this.

Throughout the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, writes Robert G. Weisbord, the idea of a return to Africa stirred the imagination of Negro leaders in the United States.

Albert E. Cowdrey records the enlistment of runaway slaves by the North during the American Civil War.

Sudie Duncan Sides explores plantation life in the Southern states before the American Civil War.

J.D. Hargreaves introduces a prophet of nationalism in the coastal countries of West Africa.

Derek Severn describes how the assault secured the release of many slaves and much ransom money but Barbary pirates remained a menace until the French annexation.

Though all his life Burke fought against injustice, cruelty and oppression, his attitude towards the slave-trade was at times ambiguous. Yet, writes Robert W. Smith, the great writer was the first statesman in Britain or Ireland to produce a plan for ending it.

Europe knew little about black Africa, writes Steven R. Smith, until the trading voyages of the late sixteenth century.

Arnita Ament Jones describes the collaboration of Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen in the American movement for reform and the conduct of Utopian communities.