Autor: Richard Huzzey

After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of 'anti-slavery’ as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority to other …

After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority …

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce …