Introduction -- Buying Oroonoko in Salem : sentimentality, spectacle, slavery, and the Salem Social Library -- "Whatever is, is right" : the Redwood Library and the reception of Pope's poetry in ...
LONDON — A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies. Britain insists ...
In 1791 William Wilberforce, a leading abolitionist, predicted that future Britons would “scarce believe” slavery had existed for so long. Yet every year billions of pounds-worth of goods produced ...