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After abolition: Britain and the slave trade since 1807
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African Research & Documentation
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October 1, 2007
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- Pinfold, John
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After abolition: Britain and the slave trade since 1807, by Marika Sherwood. London: LB. Tauris, 2007. ix, 246pp. ISBN 1-84511-365-0. £19.50.
This book is passionate, angry, provocative, stimulating and thought provoking, but also at times infuriating. It is certain to arouse strong emotions and to kick start a debate on Britain's relationship with slavery and the slave trade after the abolition of the latter in 1807.
Sherwood begins by asking a very simple question, but one which most of the writers on slavery and the slave trade have shied away from. Namely, was the Act of 1807, and indeed all the subsequent acts on slavery, obeyed, and if not, how were they evaded? This leads her on to ...