British attitudes to the Negro, 1850-1870

This dissertation seeks to explain the rise of racial antipathy toward the Negro among mid-Victorian Englishmen. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Englishmen responded enthusiastically to the appeals of missionary promoters and abolitionists on behalf of sinning savages and suffering slav...

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Main Author: Lorimer, Douglas Alexander
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32742