George Whitfield, 18th century Church of England preacher and a leading Methodist. Whitfield was a defender of slavery on the grounds that Biblical figures had owned slaves. (Source: Lebrecht ...

However, not everyone agreed with slavery and by the 18th century the Abolitionist Movement became a powerful political force. Governments were under pressure to suppress slavery but because it ...

This figure exceeds 3,000, compared with the estimate for slaves crossing the Atlantic in the late 18th century at an annual rate of 44,000. REPARATIONS In recent years the slave trade has ...

But their rejection of slavery as a fate for themselves in no way meant that they were unwilling to enslave others. It was just not an issue — until the 18th century, and then it became an issue ...

DAVID OLUSOGA:'These are Britain's forgotten slave owners.' DAVID OLUSOGA:'By the mid-18th Century, as slave owners in the Caribbean became increasingly wealthy from their sugar plantations ...

An organized system to assist runaway slaves seems to have begun towards the end of the 18th century. In 1786 George Washington complained about how one of his runaway slaves was helped by a ...

For example, TCD's library is named after the philosopher George Berkeley, an 18th Century slave-owner. Some universities in the UK have also begun investigating their historic links with slavery.

Under its surface we see the ghostly outlines of human figures, packed together as in the famous diagram of slaves laid out in the hold of an 18th-century slave ship. It is a haunting image ...