The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People

LOLA YOUNG, BARONESS YOUNG OF HORNSEY, Foreword; JAMES WALVIN, Introduction; WILLIAM A. PETTIGREW, Parliament and the Escalation of the Slave Trade, 1690-1714; CHRISTOPHER L. BROWN, The British Government and the Slave Trade: Early Parliamentary Enquiries, 1713-83; SEYMOUR DRESCHER, Public Opinion and Parliament in the Abolition of the British Slave Trade; KATHY CHATER, Black People in England, 1660-1807; GELIEN MATTHEWS, Trinidad: A Model Colony for British Slave Trade Abolition; CASSANDRA PYBUS, 'A less favourable specimen': The Abolitionist Response to Self-Emancipated Slaves in Sierra Leone, 1793-1808; HILARY Mcd. BECKLES, The Wilberforce Song: How Enslaved Caribbean Blacks heard British Abolitionists; DAVID RICHARDSON, The Ending of the British Slave Trade in 1807: The Economic Context; STEPHEN FARRELL, 'Contrary to the Principles of Justice, Humanity and Sound Policy': The Slave Trade, Parliamentary Politics and the Abolition Act, 1807 ; Appendix: Survey of the House of Commons on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, February 1807; MARCUS WOOD, Packaging Liberty and Marketing the Gift of Freedom: 1807 and the Legacy of Clarkson's Chest; CAROLINE BRESSEY, The Black Presence in England and Wales after the Abolition Act, 1807-1930; MIKE KAYE, The Development of the Anti-Slavery Movement after 1807; EXHIBITION CATALOGUE 'The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People', an exhibition held in Westminster Hall, 23 May-23 September 2007, edited by MELANIE UNWIN.