Not Just Wilberforce: Yorkshire and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807

At 2:17 I meant to say "slave trade", not movement.
(Apologies for the wind noise; Storm Dennis is blowing down my chimney and my 1960s fireplace keeps making a racket). Honestly, this was probably the hardest video I've had to research - there simple aren't that many big names from Yorkshire. However, after hours of beachcombing, I found some real nuggets of information. I'm aware I haven't gone into that much detail about Yorkshire's slavery links, except for the Harewoods; after establishing that the slave trade was central to the economy, I thought it rather self-evident that Yorkshire would be involved. My focus here is more abolition.

Sources for the stats:

Thomas, H. (2006). The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave trade 1440-1870, p514.

Page, A. (2011). Rational Dissent, Enlightenment, and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, The Historical Journal, Vol. 54 (3), pp. 741-722.

Kaufmann, C. and Pape, R. (1999) Explaining Costly International Moral Action: Britain's Sixty-Year Campaign against the Atlantic Slave Trade, International Organisation, Vol 53 (4), pp. 631-668.

For a good book on debunking the decline thesis, the best is probably Seymour Drescher's 'Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition.'