James MacQueen (1778 1870) was one of the most outspoken critics of
the British anti-slavery campaign in the 1820s and 1830s. A former
manager of a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, he was editor of
the Glasgow Courier, a paper that favoured West Indian merchant
interests and opposed rights for slaves. First published in 1824,
this book is a direct attack on contemporary anti-slavery
campaigners, such as William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, whom
MacQueen holds responsible for 'the dreadful misrepresentations
scattered abroad' about West India colonies and the planters.
MacQueen, who insists on calling himself an enemy of slavery 'in
the abstract', argues that abolition in the colonies would lead to
insurrections, bringing chaos and barbarism to these territories.
This, in turn, would lead to the loss of the British colonies. This
volume remains an essential document in the context of
post-colonial studies.
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