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Slaveholders and revolution: the Jamaican planter class, British imperial politics, and the ending of the slave trade, 1775–1807
- Author(s):
- Christer Petley (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- British History, History, University of Southampton Department of History
- Subject(s):
- Eighteenth century, Atlantic Ocean Region, History, British territories and possessions, Great Britain, Caribbean Area, Slavery
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- 18th Century, british empire, British history, Caribbean, 18th century, Atlantic history, British empire, History of slavery
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M68523
- Abstract:
- This article re-examines the declining influence of Jamaican sugar planters within the British Empire during the period between the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 and Parliament’s decision to abolish the slave trade in 1807. Much of the existing scholarship emphasises the consequences of the American Revolutionary War and rise of abolitionism during the 1780s as pivotal to the fall of the planters. This article argues that those challenges did not determine the fate of the Jamaican planters. Rather, it was the radicalisation of the French and Haitian Revolutions, and the extended period of war that began in 1793, that led to their eventual defeat over the question of the slave trade.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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