Three hundred years ago Britain was what she is again, a mid-sized
island off the coast of Eurasia. Between then and now she became
the centre of a world economy. And just midway upon this imperial
passage the people of the Empire, free Britons and colonial slaves,
secured the destruction of slavery and hastened its demise
throughout the world. Those who were part of Britain's Atlantic
economy but free of direct economic dependency were the most
effective agents in that process. The great novelty of this process
therefore lay in the fact that for the first time in history the
nonslave masses, including working men and women, played a direct
and decisive role in bringing chattel slavery to an end. Seymour
Drescher's study focuses attention on the period when popular
pressure was effectively deployed as a means of altering national
policy, and at those fault-lines in British society which seem to
have partly determined the timing and intensity of abolition.
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