V.G. Kiernan on the high price of poison
V.G. Kiernan, 23 June 1988
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848
by Robin Blackburn.
Verso, 560 pp., £27.95, April 1988,0 86091 188 8 Show More
by Robin Blackburn.
Verso, 560 pp., £27.95, April 1988,
Pro-Slavery: A History of the Defence of Slavery in America, 1701-1840
by Larry Tise.
Georgia, 501 pp., $40, March 1988,0 8203 0927 3 Show More
by Larry Tise.
Georgia, 501 pp., $40, March 1988,
Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean
by Alfred Hunt.
Louisiana State, 196 pp., £23.75, March 1988,9780807113288 Show More
by Alfred Hunt.
Louisiana State, 196 pp., £23.75, March 1988,
Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection
by David Wilson.
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 218 pp., $27.95, April 1988,0 7735 1013 3 Show More
by David Wilson.
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 218 pp., $27.95, April 1988,
“... slaves in North America; by 1790, in spite of the war, there were 700,000. Another investigator, Larry Tise in Pro-Slavery: A History of the Defence of Slavery in America, 1701-1840, shows how deeply men’s thinking, all over the country, came to be tainted by this vicious survival. Ministers of religion, the most vocal élite in society, ‘wrote ... ”
