Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not en

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At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publicati

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth cent