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"Whisper to him the word 'India'": trans-atlantic critics and American slavery, 1830-1860.(Critical essay)

En route from Cleveland to Cincinnati in the 1850s, Mr. Darby, an Englishman, irritated his traveling companion--the Kentuckian 'Squire Henry Gray--by noting his hatred of "abominable African Slavery." Gray responded that, while Darby claimed to oppose inequality, his government featured "a Queen, arrayed in royal robes ... surrounded by fawning ministers, and cringing sycophants," and indeed England had been the "foster father" of American slavery. To reinforce his scorn for British criticism on the matter, he juxtaposed American slavery and the British Empire. True, Britain had demonstrated "unbounded benevolence" to slaves who ran away to Canada. But it had also authorized ...

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