The great novelty of this process therefore lay in the fact that for the first time in history the nonslave masses, including working men and women, played a direct and decisive role in bringing chattel slavery to an end.
Foreword; Christine Bolt - Preface - A Chronology of Emancipation, 1772-1888 - The Foundations of Slavery and Antislavery - Border Skirmish: Neither Wages nor the Whip - The Distinctiveness of British Abolitionist Mobilization - The Breakthrough, 1787-1792 - The Impact of Popular Mobilization in Britain and the Caribbean - Gods Work: Antislavery and Religious Mobilization - Class Conflict, Hegemony and the Cost of Antislavery - Antislavery and Capitalism - Notes - Bibliography - Index