Politics and the public conscience: slave emancipation and the abolitionist movement in Britain [by] Edith F. Hurwitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

NTRODUCTION -- Ideological Trends in Anti-slavery Thought -- Politics and the Public Conscience: The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Emancipation Act 1831-1840 -- The Anti-Slavery Movement and British Society -- DOCUMENTS -- An Appeal To The Religion, Justice, and Humanity of The Inhabitants of The British Empire On Behalf of the Negro Slaves in The West Indies / William Wilberforce -- A Brief View of the Nature and Effects of Negro Slavery As It Exists in the Colonies of Great Britain -- Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet, with Selections From His Correspondence -- Report of the Agency Committee of the Anti-Slavery Society -- Memoir of William Knibb, Missionary of Jamaica / John Howard Hinton -- Substance of An Address To The Ladies of Glasgow and Vicinity On Negro Emanicpation: Mr. Andersons Chapel -- Petitions For the Abolition of Slavery -- From the Speech of Edward Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Introducing the Government Plan for the Emancipation of the Slaves -- From the Petition of Lords Wellington, St Vincent, Penshurst and Wynford Against the Emancipation Act -- From Abolition of Slavery Act 1833 -- From a Letter of Thomas Clarkson to William Smith.

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