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'A species of slavery': Richard Price's rational dissent and antislavery

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posted on 2023-05-17, 02:50 authored by Anthony PageAnthony Page
Revd Richard Price was one of the leading intellectual lights of Rational Dissent in late eighteenth-century Britain and was prominent in campaigns for religious and parliamentary reform. Hailed as an 'Apostle of Liberty' by the American and French Revolutionaries, Price was also an early subscriber to the Abolition Society in London. While prominent among British Enlightenment figures he had, however, a low profile as an abolitionist and is seldom mentioned in scholarship on abolition. This study discusses the nature of Price's antislavery and his relationship with Americans such as Thomas Jefferson. It sheds more light on the degree to which the emergence of abolitionism depended upon circumstances and how well it combined with other aims and priorities.

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Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies

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32

Pagination

53-73

ISSN

0144-039X

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School of Humanities

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Routledge

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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