First paperback edition. Contents: The antislavery tradition; Emancipation and after; Buxton’s solution; Sturge’s solution; The abolition of legalized slavery in British India and Ceylon; The abolitionists and the sugar colonies 1838-1850; The struggle over the sugar duties 1839-1841; The abolitionists and the sugar duties 1841-1852; The abolitionists and the slave trade 1839-1853; Relations with abolitionists in Europe and America 1840-1850; Antislavery issues of the 1850s; Antislavery issues of the 1860s; Epilogue; Appendices (Sugar prices and the slave trade; Leading antislavery societies; Eric Williams and slavery); Bibliography; Index.