After Abolition. Britain and the slave trade since 1807

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Explores aspects of post 1807 / 1833 British involvement - via businesses and investors and the state - in the use of slave labour and in slave trading, through to the 1880s and final abolition of slavery by Cuba and Brazil. Has chapters: 'The slave trade and slavery'; 'The tale of two cities built on slavery - Liverpool and Manchester'; 'Some British companies and slavery'; 'Cuba and Brazil'; 'Africa'; 'British people, government and Parliament. Touches on the involvement, inter alia, of Baring Brothers; Rothschilds; Rabone Bros & Co of Birmingham; Forster & Smith, London merchants trading to West Africa; etc