David Richardson is the former director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, and professor of economic history, University of Hull, England. He is the author of numerous books and articles.
“Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet
published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic
slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that
dominance was at its peak.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the
Transatlantic Slave Trade
“David Richardson’s meticulous exploration of the rise and fall of
the British slave trade offers a brilliant synthesis of the history
and historiography of a pivotal development in world
history.”—Seymour Drescher, author of Abolition: A History of
Slavery and Antislavery
“The most important recent single volume study of the slave trade,
this is a book that commands attention. Richardson confronts a
topic of great historical importance. It is a study conceived and
executed with an intellectual verve and confidence.”—James Walvin,
University of York
“An important and timely book that will appeal to the general
reader interested in the history of the British slave trade and the
abolition movement.”—Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge
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