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The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade in Jamaica during the last two decades of the 18th century.
* Represents the best single source on the efforts in Britain to prevent the abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica in the late 18th century
* Offers background context for Fuller's letters and provides new information about the effectiveness of the West India interest in Britain's houses of parliament
* Provides the fullest accounting of the campaign orchestrated by Jamaica and other Caribbean islands to turn back the abolitionist attack on the slave trade and plantation regime
* Features a wealth of information about the slave trade, the conditions in which Jamaican slaves lived and worked, the racial attitudes of planters and their overseas representatives
* Reveals the efforts made by Fuller to appease the abolition movement through modest steps to deflect criticisms of the planter regime
List of contents
Opening of the campaign : 1788 Making the case : 1789-90
The West India interest under siege : 1791-2
Defeat, obstruction and partial victory : 1793-5
Appendix 1: Members of Parliament with West Indian connections, 1780-96
Appendix 2: List of the membership of the Persian Club (undated)
Appendix 3: Remonstrance of His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Council and Assembly of Jamaica, on behalf of themselves and all persons interested in the trade or cultivation of the West India Islands, 10 december 1789
Appendix 4: List of planters and merchants who resided in and around London
Appendix 5: To the King's Most Excellent Majesty: The humble address and petition of the Assembly of Jamaica, 5 November 1790
Appendix 6: To the Right Honourable William Pitt, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer: The memorial of the West India planters and merchants, London Tavern, March 1791.
About the author
After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University,
M.W. McCahill taught at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and then, for 30 years, at Brooks School where he also served as dean. He is the author of
Order and Equipoise: The Peerage and the House of Lords, 1783-1806 (1978) and
The House of Lords in the Age of George III, 1760-1811 (2009).
Summary
The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade in Jamaica during the last two decades of the 18th century.
