Popular pressure or economic reality: what was the reason for the abolition of slavery in the British empire?

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James WalvinBlack Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire

David RichardsonAbolition and its Aftermath: The Historical Context 1790 -1916 (1985)

Adam HochschildBury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (2005)

David GeggusThe British Government and the Saint Domingue Slave Revolt 1791-93 English Historical Review, 1981

Hugh ThomasThe Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (1997)

James WalvinSlavery and British Society 1776 -1846 (1982)

Seymour DrescherWhose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade? Past & Present 1994

David EltisRoutes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1997)

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