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