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

Michael Taylor

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#3360 of 3,809 books · #1056 in History

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing (2021).

The Interest was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire. But for the next 25 years more than 700,000 people remained enslaved, due to the immensely powerful pro-slavery group the 'West India Interest'. This ground-breaking history discloses the extent to which the 'Interest' were supported by nearly every figure of the British establishment - fighting, not to abolish slavery, but to maintain it for profit. Gripping and unflinching, The Interest is the long-overdue exposé of one of Britain's darkest, most turbulent times.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781473566361
Genre
History
Topics
Slavery abolitionBritish EmpirePolitical resistance to abolition

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