Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the AtlanticThe abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actorsslaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working class radicals, British evangelicals, African