EH.net James Walvin, University of York "...timely and compelling book..." -Brooke N. Newman, Eighteenth-Century Studies "...Ryden successfully puts the issue of West Indian economic decline back on ...

such as at a music hall in the English northern city of Newcastle. Another abolitionist, Henry Box Brown, lectured at the Polytechnic Hall in the coastal town of Falmouth. "These places of ...

In 1838, he escaped to the North, settling in the abolitionist stronghold of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator, and hearing him speak at ...

Discover how a daring escape and 1772 court case challenged Britain’s stance on slavery and set off a global abolitionist ...

School of English graduate Jessica Yates, a researcher on the Sheffield Black Atlantic ... When delving further into the study of Transatlantic Slavery it became increasingly evident that Sheffield ...

It is this house which now bears the blue plaque from English Heritage marking their achievements: "Refugees from slavery and campaigners for its abolition lived here". Justin De Souza/English ...

The abolitionists used many ways to convince people that the slave trade should be abolished. A network of local abolition groups was established across Britain. These groups campaigned through ...

The abolitionists used many ways to convince people that the slave trade should be abolished. As the ideas of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade grew in popularity, a network of ...