Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britain's
economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Unsurprisingly, when the abolition of the slave trade
was first mooted opinion was widely divided. The majority of the
British public were either apathetic about the plight of black
Africans in the American colonies or firmly against any change.
Much of the establishment, including the Anglican Church, robustly
supported the Afro-Caribbean slavery. The Great Abolition Sham is
the first book to explore the real personalities and issues behind
the popular rhetoric which surrounds the abolitionist movement.
Documentary evidence confirms the shocking duplicity of the British
government, which protected the slave trade after its formal
abolition in 1807, and exposes the levels of hypocrisy that made a
mockery of the Emancipation Act of 1834.
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