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In Who Abolished Slavery? Slave Revolts and Abolitionism, the historian of Portuguese abolition, João Pedro Marques, argues against what he describes as two misinterpretations. For Marques, these were: "first, that revolts were always ways of fighting slavery; and secondly, that the decision to end the system of slavery in most Western nations was for the most part the outcome of such revolts."(p. 5) Marques disagrees with both of these views and maintains that it is not possible to establish a correlation between slave uprisings and the acts of emancipation in the West.

A thorough examination of slave life, first-person accounts by slaves, the abolitionist groups and abolitionists, legislation, etc from the British POV, plus a section on USA campaigners against slavery.

Video from Montpelier about the abolitionist movement.