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In the 1830s, the British abolished slavery across their Atlantic empire. Their reasons were varied. Some had rallied behind abolitionism because they believed hostility to slavery was intrinsic to their Christian faith. Others thought that slavery was out of sync with a modern, industrialising economy. What united them was the belief that Britain was uniquely equipped, indeed destined, to end slavery. Abolitionism, it seemed, was baked into the national character.
This book challenges that comforting narrative. Britons were never uniformly or persistently anti-slavery. Certainly, not all Victorian Christians were enthused by anti-slavery. Indeed, some of the most influential theological trends of the day, like Tractarianism, were indifferent to emancipation, if not actively hostile. Nor was Britain's brand of industrial capitalism the antidote to enslavement. On the contrary, British capitalism sustained slavery in the many parts of the Atlantic world in the so-called Age of Emancipation.
These tensions are traced through the intertwined lives of three cousins. One was an industrialist who pro ted from enslaved copper miners in Cuba. Another, a Royal Naval chaplain, turned against Britain's anti-slavery mission in southern Africa. The third, a restless adventurer, fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the American Civil War. Together, their stories reveal a Britain far less certain - and far less virtuous - than abolitionist legend suggests.
Contents
Chapter 1: Sierra Leone: Pascoe Grenfell and the African Institution
Chapter 2: Cuba: Charles Pascoe Grenfell and the Cobre Company
Charles Pascoe Grenfell and British Economic Hegemony
El Cobre
El Cobre Exposed
Shape-shifting Slavers
Lord Brougham's Act and the Limits of British Abolitionism
Chapter 3: 1843 The Cape: The Reverend Pascoe Grenfell Hill in Southern Africa
Pascoe Grenfell Hill, High Anglicanism and Slavery
Intercepting Slavers
The Cape: Anti-slavery Headquarters in the 1840s
Ordeal aboard the Progresso
The Destruction of the Xhosa
**Chapter 4: 1859 Kentucky: George St Leger Grenfell and the Defence of Slavery **
Slavery Rampant in the 1850s
Ambivalent Nationalisms
Anglo-Saxons Chronicled
Black Soldiers take to the Field
On Secret Service
Chapter 5: 1867 and Beyond
Some Conclusions
People
Glossary
