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This book contains two pamphlets showing two opposed points of view on the slavery question. British philanthropist Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831) was a strong supporter of complete emancipation for slaves in the British West Indies, and published Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition in 1824. This work not only criticises anti-slavery campaigners of the time, whose efforts Heyrick considered too cautious and indirect; they also call for a boycott of all slave-produced goods from the West Indies - particularly sugar - and underline the collective responsibility of British citizens in the matter. Alexander McDonnell (1794-1875) was an equally vigorous propagandist for the sugar-planters of the West Indies, and published Compulsory Manumission: or, An Examination of the Actual State of the West India Question, in 1827. These works show the strength of feeling on both sides of the argument in Britain nearly twenty years after the abolition of the slave trade.
Llegir més - Autors Elizabeth Heyrick, Alexander McDonnell
- ISBN13 9781108020305
- ISBN10 1108020305
- Pàgines 150
- Any Edició 2010
- Fecha de publicación 23/09/2010
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Pamphlets on West Indian Slavery (Alemany, Francès)
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- Elizabeth Heyrick, Alexander McDonnell
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- Cambridge University Press (2010)
- 9781108020305



