The British Army's African Recruitment Policy, 1790-1807

2025/04/28 by Buckley, Roger N.
#Abolitionism #Anti-Slavery Struggle #Great Britain #Military History

paper · doi:10.7275/6931

Abstract

The article is drawn from a presentation to the Five College Black Studies Seminar Series, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 25 February 1982. It argues that delays in the British abolition of the slave trade was related to military policies and imperial interests.

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