At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publicati

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth cent

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Erik Root's book, Sons of the Fathers explores the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831D1832, conducted in the House of Delegates. This is possibly the greatest deba