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Explores the political, economic, and ideological agendas that at the height of the British abolition and missionary movements allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart.
"There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery" (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expans…