The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery, Michael Taylor anthology Take a wonderfully crazed excursion

Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults

an epistolary chapter

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He’s Washington's chronicler in chief

by Lydia Davis

The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery, Michael Taylor anthology Take a wonderfully crazed excursionA dramatic narrative history based on new research revealing the previously hidden side of the story of abolition SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self congratulation but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire. But for the next 25 years more than 700,000 people remained