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PROSLAVERY BRITAIN Fighting for Slavery in an Era of Abolition Paula E. Dumas Proslavery Britain This page intentionally left blank Proslavery Britain Fighting for Slavery in an Era of Abolition Paula E. Dumas Palgrave macmillan PROSLAVERYBRITAIN Copyright©PaulaE.Dumas2016 Softcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedition2016978-1-137-57820-4 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission.Noportionofthis publicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmittedsavewithwritten permission.InaccordancewiththeprovisionsoftheCopyright,Designs andPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicencepermittinglimited copyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency,SaffronHouse, 6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Firstpublished2016by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,Hampshire,RG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofNatureAmerica,Inc.,One NewYorkPlaza,Suite4500,NewYork,NY10004-1562. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. ISBN978-1-349-72066-8 E-PDFISBN:978–1–137–55858–9 DOI:10.1057/9781137558589 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Dumas,PaulaE.,author. Title:ProslaveryBritain:fightingforslaveryinaneraof abolition/PaulaE.Dumas. Description:NewYork,NY:PalgraveMacmillan,[2016] | Includes bibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2015027478 | (hardback:alkalinepaper) Subjects:LCSH:Slavery—GreatBritain—Justification. | Slavery—Great Britain—History—19thcentury. | Abolitionists—GreatBritain— History—19thcentury. | Antislaverymovements—GreatBritain— History—19thcentury. Classification:LCCHT1163.D862016 | DDC306.3/62094109034—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttp://lccn.loc.gov/2015027478 AcataloguerecordforthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Contents ListofFigures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 TheProslaveryPosition 9 2 ProslaveryinPrint 51 3 ProslaveryArtsandCulture 89 4 ProslaveryPoliticsandtheSlaveTrade 115 5 ProslaveryPoliticsafterAbolition 143 Conclusion 163 Notes 167 Bibliography 199 Index 217 This page intentionally left blank Figures 3.1 PhilanthropicConsolationsafterthelossoftheSlave Bill 95 3.2 JohnBullTakingaClearViewoftheNegroSlavery Question 97 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments My road to uncovering the existence of a proslavery Britain began with a single question that I asked in a graduate seminar at Western University in London, Ontario. In that small seminar, “Slavery and Abolition,”IaskedwhotheBritishabolitionistswerefightingagainst that forced them to take decades to achieve their goals of abolishing slaveryandthe international tradeinslaves.Iwillbeforeverthankful to Margaret Kellow, who immediately challenged me to answer that question and who helped me to verify that there was next to no cur- rent scholarship on the opposition to British abolition. This led to a master’scognatepaper,aPhDthesis,andnowthisbook. During my doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh, H. T. DickinsonandGordonPentlandencouragedmetogainafirmunder- standing of the place of the slavery debates within the wider scope of British political history, but to also look into how proslavery ideas manifested themselves in the arts and culture of the era and how theseideascouldhavereachedthewiderBritishpublic.Uponmyfirst meeting with them, they looked at me and confidently told me that my research project would become a book. I am thankful for their unending support and encouragement. Advice from the University of Edinburgh’s faculty, including (but certainly not limited to) Frank Cogliano,AndrewWells,AdamBudd,andKarinaWilliamson,helped guide my research. John Oldfield’s feedback and encouragement to highlight the existence of a culture of proslavery in Britain has had a significantimpactonthefinalshapeofthisproject.LindseyFlewelling, MeganLedford,DavidLøvbræk,andMarthaRybiakprovidedtimely, thoughtfulfeedbackonthepenultimatedraftofthisbook.Anyerrors, ofcourse,areentirelymyown. InordertoundertakethisresearchIreceivedhelpfulfinancialsup- port. The offer of a Western Graduate Research Scholarship guided me to Western for my master’s degree. A College Studentship from the University of Edinburgh enabled me to study in Edinburgh, uti- lizing the National Library of Scotland’s holdings and the wealth of informationcontainedwithintheUniversityofEdinburgh’sprintand
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