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<p><b>Slavery and the British Empire</b> provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards.</p> <p>Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834.</p> <p>As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.</p>

Author

KENNETH MORGAN

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199238996

Subjects

History, Sociology, Social Science

Rating

4.5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14