Slavery's Long Goodbye

Chris Evans is a Professor of History at the University of South Wales. He is author of Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery 1660-1850, and his interests include abolitionism in the British world in the nineteenth century; the links between European industry and the Atlantic slave trade; eighteenth-century whaling; and Swansea copper as an agency of global change in the nineteenth century. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• Chapter 1: Sierra Leone: Pascoe Grenfell and the African InstitutionChapter 2: Cuba: Charles Pascoe Grenfell and the Cobre CompanyCharles Pascoe Grenfell and British Economic HegemonyEl CobreEl Cobre ExposedShape-shifting SlaversLord Brougham’s Act and the Limits of British AbolitionismChapter 3: 1843 The Cape: The Reverend Pascoe Grenfell Hill in Southern AfricaPascoe Grenfell Hill, High Anglicanism and SlaveryIntercepting SlaversThe Cape: Anti-slavery Headquarters in the 1840sOrdeal aboard the ProgressoThe Destruction of the Xhosa**Chapter 4: 1859 Kentucky: George St Leger Grenfell and the Defence of Slavery **Slavery Rampant in the 1850sAmbivalent NationalismsAnglo-Saxons ChronicledBlack Soldiers take to the FieldOn Secret ServiceChapter 5: 1867 and BeyondSome ConclusionsPeopleGlossary

"This marvellous account of British and American entanglements in slavery ranges far beyond the standard spatial and temporal parameters. Evans expertly weaves together personal, family and political connections across the Atlantic and deep into Africa and the Americas, tracing the changing contours of the British Empire as it adapted to a post-‘emancipation’ world. Required reading for students of British, imperial and world history."Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex and Adjunct Professor of History, La Trobe University