These letters state the reasons why sugar ought to be cultivated and acquired in East India – to introduce a fairer system of trade in the Caribbean, there was no slavery in… Keep reading
Discussion of the present condition of slaves; decline of slavery in some places due to technological advances; increase of slave population in the US; state of slavery in Brazil; affects of commerce… Keep reading
Discussion of the benefits of the spread of Christianity ‘to lessen the miseries and promote the happiness of man’ which has contributed to the decline of slavery; argument of using labour provided… Keep reading
A series of letters first published in the Liverpool Mercury between James Cropper, a supporter of abolition and John Gladstone MP (who later became prime minister) and West Indies planter, each arguing… Keep reading
