Setting the captive free’
Thomas perronet thompson, british radicalism and the west indies, 1820s–1860s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11192580 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Turner (0000-0002-5428-2635, University of Sunderland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-132 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01440390500058921 |
| OpenAlex | W2008663899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article explores the aims and agitation of British radicals who interested themselves in the West Indies during the early and mid nineteenth century. It analyses debates about slavery, race, empire, free trade, sugar and the conduct of those who hold power at home and in the West Indian colonies, using lines of inquiry suggested by the conduct, speeches and writings of Thomas Perronet Thompson, the radical MP and political economist who devoted much of his public career to colonial and particularly West Indian matters. Thompson can be taken to represent a body of opinion that wanted significant changes in the economic and constitutional relationship between Britain and the West Indies, and he was no less committed to a radical reform of the political, economic and social make up of the colonies themselves. Radicals frequently disagreed with each other on the West Indies, however, and Thompson's role in these disputes also reveals a great deal about the context within which the aforementioned debates proceeded
Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Empire · Ethnology · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · West indies · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law
Two Jamaicas
The overthrow of colonial slavery 1776–1848
British Slave Emancipation
The British Empire 1558-1995
Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815–1914
Slavery and British Society 1776–1846
Abolitionists and Working-Class Problems in the Age of Industrialization
English Farmers and the Politics of Protection, 1815-1852
Abolitionists and Working-Class Problems in the Age of Industrialization
Two Jamaicas
Economic change and contract labor in the British Caribbean
The ‘Moral Radical Party’ and the Anglo-Jamaican campaign for the abolition of the Negro apprenticeship system
The Limits of Abolition
Dictionary of national biography’
The British Government and the Governor Eyre Controversy, 1865–1875
The Queen's Letter of 1865 and British Policy towards Emancipation and Indentured Labour in the West Indies, 1830–1865
Reappraisals in British Imperial History
Emancipation and Apprenticeship in the British West Indies
The 1848 Revolutions and the British Empire
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848
White Dreams and Black Africa
The Age of Reform, 1815-70
The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2016 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |