Napoleon, Public Opinion & the Slave Trade
Napoleon, the British Public Opinion, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Lubomir Krastev
In: Slavery Past, Present and Future, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016. p. 13-19
http://www.shadowsofslavery.org/publications/Colosio_2016.pdf
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I think @tomholmberg we have to remember that many of the things that were commonplace in this era are long gone today. Indentured servitude which was an everyday occurrence would be considered akin to modern slavery today. Apprentices likewise, many absconded to join the Georgian army, and we all know how brutal that seems to us today. Facts are that life was short ugly and brutish for great swathes of civilians. Options for freed slaves were therefore limited in scope.