The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery - Michael Taylor
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For 200 years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer.
In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained enslaved. And when a renewed abolitionist campaign was mounted, making slave ownership the defining political and moral issue of the day, emancipation was fiercely resisted by the powerful ‘West India Interest’. Supported by nearly every leading figure of the British establishment - including Canning, Peel and Gladstone, The Times and Spectator - the Interest ensured that slavery survived until 1833 and that when abolition came at last, compensation worth £340 billion in today’s money was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders, entrenching the power of their families to shape modern Britain to this day.
Drawing on major new research, this long-overdue and groundbreaking history provides a gripping narrative account of the tumultuous and often violent battle - between rebels and planters, between abolitionists and the pro-slavery establishment - that divided and scarred the nation during these years of upheaval. The Interest reveals the lengths to which British leaders went to defend the indefensible in the name of profit, showing that the ultimate triumph of abolition came at a bitter cost and was one of the darkest and most dramatic episodes in British history.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
December 29th, 2020
What utter tripe
December 29th, 2020
What utter tripe. Actually banned in 1806 and did more than anyone to stamp it out.
Actually the darling of the middle class self-adoring pretend lefties - William Wilberforce through tears (seriously) about the evil of slavery - was quite happy to scream abuse at MPs trying to stop working class children being sent down mines.
But thats the kind of double standards the false left are known for
December 29th, 2020
You mean, how the Brits an Americans fought slavery and how Africans still sell their brothers into captivity…
December 30th, 2020
Indeed! What a load of rubbish!
December 30th, 2020
I live in Asia. Luckily my son is taught in public school to love his country. The self-hatred shown in western countries (and taught to children) is quite scary.
December 30th, 2020
Brilliant stuff, I haven’t listened to it yet either but it leans into my biases.
February 3rd, 2021
Woke turds rewriting of history to please each other. Never letting truth get in the way
Bound to please the brainwashed heterophobe
February 12th, 2021
To AndyBook
I find it telling that you mention self hatred, the book is actually historical information that is widely available for from a variety of sources. I suggest that you comment on what you are familiar with.
Leadingnorth, it is quite obvious that selling your countrymen was common in civil war in many societies, this was practiced by the greeks and romans but it is telling that you seem encapsulate the comment as if you are stating that the nations that you mentioned tried to help but the africans sold their brothers? what is that supposed to imply? that they were attempting to stop what was already happening?
the other comments are quite sad, because you can get most of the factual source material this book refers to free from a number of impeachable source (Hansards for one)!
January 19th, 2022
It is sad when politics comes to a website like this. This is a factual history. There were zealous crusaders against any hint of abolition. Abolition and the slave trade were defended by some of the most powerful figures in British society. True, Wilberforce wasn’t a saint, but that doesn’t disparage what he accomplished. Ending slavery without a civil war is an amazing accomplishment.
August 3rd, 2024
Step 1. Lecturer at Oxford writes an insightful, balanced book drawing on in-depth research exploring how elements in the British establishment resisted abolition.
Step 2. People who haven’t read the book (Basileus5, AndyBook, et al.) rapidly dismiss it as left-wing tripe, on the grounds that slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1806 thanks to the efforts of William Wilberforce and others (conveniently ignoring that the abolition movement, including Wilberforce, been fighting for abolition for decades before 1806 - and that their having to fight for abolition in itself shows that there was resistance to abolition within the British establishment).
Step 3. Said people throw in a healthy dose of left wing/African/anyone they don’t like-bashing for good measure. Anything other than a hagiography of the British Empire is railed against as self-hatred.
Step 4. People who HAVE read the book remind us (e.g. housekiszka) that there are decent people in the world who speak about a history book without bemoaning “wokeness”. Thank goodness.
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