The 18th Century Enslaving Industry

This book uncovers a little-known history of Quakers in Britain and demonstrates how the activities of a group of Lancaster Quaker Merchants involved in slavery fitted the accepted social, political and moral attitudes of 17th and18th century Britain towards the enslavement of Africans. It suggests that the single heroic narrative of British Quakers being abolitionists masks the truth that some British Quakers were heavily involved in all aspects of the enslaving industry and that despite Quaker