Proscription by Degrees

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University of London. He is the author of Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2008) and A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery (2014).

• List of tables; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: 1. Colonial restrictions on the slave trade, 1700–1774; 2. The slave trade and revolutionary North America, 1774–1787; 3. The US constitution, the debates over ratification, and the slave trade, 1787–1788; 4. Opposition to the slave trade in the early national period, 1789–1802; 5. Final controversies over the US slave trade, 1803–1807; Epilogue; Bibliography.

'In this deeply researched, well-written and accessible book, Kenneth Morgan highlights the dynamic, often erratic effort to end the slave trade to the US. Building on the pioneering work of W.E.B. DuBois, Morgan's work provides an important historical account of the movement to end the slave trade.' Julie L. Holcomb, author of Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy and editor of Quaker History