One afternoon, as he waited for the other delegates to show up so the convention could begin, Washington accompanied some ladies to a public lecture at the University of Pennsylvania by a woman named Eliza Harriot Barons O’Conner. In May 1787, George Washington arrived in Philadelphia to attend the Constitutional Convention. And as you’ll hear, there was as much money to be made in the abolition of slavery as there was in slavery itself.
Scanlan is an Assistant Professor of History at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto.
Padraic Scanlan joins Jim Ambuske to discuss his new book, Slave Empire: How Slavery Made Modern Britain. Yet as our guest today argues, there were other, equally powerful motivations beyond morality that fueled British efforts to abolish slavery. Abolition has long been a cause célèbre in the British imagination, with men like William Wilberforce receiving credit for moving the empire to right a moral wrong. Parliament banned the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, and in 1833 the government outlawed slavery itself, accomplishing through legislative action what the United States would later achieve in part by the horrors of civil war. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the British Empire began dismantling the slave system that had helped to build it.
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