William A. Pettigrew is lecturer in history at the University of Kent.
[Freedom's Debt] will be a standard source for specialists for many
years to come.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
[A] carefully researched book.--Journal of American History
A deeply researched, persuasive study on the political disputes
between the RAC and what the author calls the independent slave
traders who opposed the RAC's monopoly and were victorious by 1712
in deregulating Britain's slave trade.--H-Net
Accessible and very interesting. . . . An admirable account of how
the [Royal African Company] and its rival British slave-trading
enterprises shaped, and were shaped by, the politics of the wider
society they inhabited.--Enterprise & Society
Cogently argued.--Jrnl of Southern History
Pettigrew's fascinating and well-researched book is an essential
contribution to the history of the Anglo-American slave
trade.--Journal of Early American History
Pettigrew's work is a much needed examination of the political and
economic underpinnings of the early years of the British slave
trade.--History Today
Well researched and coherently organized...convincing, compelling,
and important...Freedom's Debt does for English history something
like what Edmund S. Morgan did for American history in American
Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia--William
and Mary Quarterly
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