{"product_id":"9781118932124","title":"Parliamentary History Book Series: Jamaica, The West India Interest at Westminster and the Campaign to Preserve the Slave Trade","description":"\u003ch1\u003eParliamentary History Book Series: Jamaica, The West India Interest at Westminster and the Campaign to Preserve the Slave Trade\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMcCahill, Michael W.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795\u003c\/i\u003e, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade in Jamaica during the last two decades of the 18th century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents the best single source on the efforts in Britain to prevent the abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica in the late 18th century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers background context for Fuller’s letters and provides new information about the effectiveness of the West India interest in Britain’s houses of parliament\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides the fullest accounting of the campaign orchestrated by Jamaica and other Caribbean islands to turn back the abolitionist attack on the slave trade and plantation regime\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a wealth of information about the slave trade, the conditions in which Jamaican slaves lived and worked, the racial attitudes of planters and their overseas representatives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals the efforts made by Fuller to appease the abolition movement through modest steps to deflect criticisms of the planter regime\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Wiley-Blackwell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2014-10-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781118932124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 228.60cm x152.40cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 200\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44314604896396,"sku":"9781118932124","price":32.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781118932124.jpg?v=1778077972","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781118932124","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}