The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor

The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery

Michael Taylor

400 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained enslaved. And when a renewed abolitionist ca...

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