Public Opinion and the Destruction of British Colonial Slavery (1982)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23752129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 57-86 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | From Slavery to Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-14876-9_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2414955093 |
| ISBN | 9781349148769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 8 |
Embedded in most histories of the abolition of British imperial slavery is what one might call a downward flowing model. From Thomas Clarkson’s graphic figure of abolitionism as a converging system of leading moralists, in 1808, to David Brion Davis’s hypothesis of anti-slavery as an expression of the hegemony of the British ruling class, in 1975, the emphasis has been on how leading members of cultural, political or economic sectors of society generated and directed the force which ultimately destroyed the British slave trade and slavery. 1 In individual accounts saints are pitted against slave-driving planters and merchants, or statesmen and political economists join forces against imperial slave interests, but attention centres on leading economic interests, on clusters of intellectuals or philosophers, on lines of division in Cabinets and Parliament. When historians have introduced the larger public into the story, it is generally and briefly treated as a ‘mass sentiment’, consciously or unconsciously worked on by elites for good or ill. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Abolitionism · Colonialism · Hegemony · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Ruling class · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
Mining the archive
The Stationers’ Company and the almanack trade
The technologies of printing
Continental imports to Britain, 1695–1740
The Longmans and the book trade, c .1730–1830
Scientific and medical books, 1780–1830
Scholarly editing
Capitalism and Slavery after Fifty Years (1997)
Eric Williams
Imposing International Norms
Introduction to Part II
Empathy for Victims of Massive Human Rights Violations and Support for Government Intervention
Williams and Drescher
Capitalism and slavery after fifty years
French slave liberation and ‘socialism’
Economic change and contract labor in the British Caribbean
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
European Historical Statistics 1750–1970
Making of the English Working Class
Some Considerations Relating to Property Rights in Man
Public Petitioning and Parliament Before 1832
The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition 1760–1810
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2009 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |