The Arc is Long… | Christer Petley
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2018 · Education
Christer Petley discusses whether the abolition of slavery was inevitable and how the issue was seen by slavers at the time. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/white-fury-9780198791638 Christer Petley researches and teaches at the University of Southampton. His work has focused mainly on Atlantic history, British imperial history, and the history of slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean. He has published books and articles exploring the history of the Jamaican planter class, transatlantic debates over slavery, and the transformations that reshaped the British empire in the period after the American Revolution. © Oxford University Press
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