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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      23 September 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511751103
      9781108020329
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751103
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 466 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, British History after 1450, History, African History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, British History after 1450, History, African History
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    James MacQueen (1778–1870) was one of the most outspoken critics of the British anti-slavery campaign in the 1820s and 1830s. A former manager of a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, he was editor of the Glasgow Courier, a paper that favoured West Indian merchant interests and opposed rights for slaves. First published in 1824, this book is a direct attack on contemporary anti-slavery campaigners, such as William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, whom MacQueen holds responsible for 'the dreadful misrepresentations scattered abroad' about West India colonies and the planters. MacQueen, who insists on calling himself an enemy of slavery 'in the abstract', argues that abolition in the colonies would lead to insurrections, bringing chaos and barbarism to these territories. This, in turn, would lead to the loss of the British colonies. This volume remains an essential document in the context of post-colonial studies.

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