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Out of slavery : abolition and after / edited by Jack Hayward. - London, England ; Totowa, N.J. : F. Cass, 1985. - xiii, 200 pages ; 23 cm - Legacies of West Indian slavery . - Legacies of West Indian slavery. .

A volume of the lectures and conference papers given during the William Wilberforce 150th anniversary celebrations at the University of Hull, July 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The utility of commemoration / Jack Hayward -- Slavery / Orlando Patterson -- Freeing the slaves / James Walvin / William Wilberforce / Fiona Spiers -- Wilberforce the Saint / Ian Bradley -- Abolition and the national interest / Howard Temperley -- Emancipation from below? / Michael Craton -- West Indian society 150 years after abolition / Lloyd Best -- "Some in light and some in darkness" / Shridath S. Ramphal -- The English judge and the ethnic minorities / Lord Scarman.

ISBN: 0714632600 9780714632605

Standard No.: 11507812 +UKX

LCCN: 87143454

Nat. Bib. No.: GB8520447 bnb b8520447

Subjects--Personal Names:
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slaves--Emancipation--West Indies, British.
Esclaves--Affranchissement--Antilles britanniques.
Slaves--Emancipation.
Abschaffung
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Sklaverei
Antislavery movements--Great Britain.
Slavery--West Indies, British.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
West Indies--British West Indies.
Westindien

Subjects--Index Terms: Slavery British abolitionist movements, to 1833

LC Class. No.: HT1093 / .O98 1985

Dewey Class. No.: 306/.362/09729