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Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism (2017)
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Burnard, T. (2017). Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism. In D. Tricoire (Ed.), Enlightened Colonialism : Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason (227-246). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5_11

How did abolitionism move from the margins of British society to a more central position by 1772? During the 1760s, some Britons came to see West Indian planters as especially vicious and West Indian slavery as particularly immoral. Tacky’s Rebellion... Read More about Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism.