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Slavery and the British empire: from Africa to America (Oxford University Press, 2007). Olusoga, David. Black and British: A Forgotten History (Macmillan, 2016); ISBN 978-1447299745; Page, Anthony. "Rational dissent, Enlightenment, and abolition of the British slave trade." Historical Journal 54.3 (2011): 741-772.
These emigrants suffered and faced many challenges as did many black people in London. The slave trade was abolished completely in the British Empire by 1833. The number of black people in London was steadily declining with these new laws. Fewer black people were brought into London from the West Indies and parts of Africa. [18]
As stated by Rob Waters in his article "Thinking Black: Peter Fryer's Staying Power and the Politics of Writing Black British History in the 1980s" (2016), published in History Workshop Journal: "The book was widely praised at the time of publication for its historical reach and magisterial prose, and it has remained a foundational text of black British history."
For decades, British historians similarly dismissed the contention that slavery profits partially sustained the industrial revolution, an argument made back in 1944 by Eric Williams, in his book ...
1787 Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the British anti-slavery campaign. Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.
Black British former slaves (24 P) W. Windrush (11 P) Pages in category "Black British history" ... Chic (1980s magazine)