ABSTRACT
The present chapter is intended to complement the account in the last of antislavery’s connections with middle-class moral and social reform and philanthropy. Its purposes are to ‘place’ antislavery through the outlooks and activities of its constituent elements, of individuals and groups by their relation to both intellectual and popular political radicalism. This can only be accomplished in a manageable space by selecting phases of radicalism from the late eighteenth century to the midnineteenth; the focus of the discussion will therefore be from the late 1780s to 1807 and the years of early Chartism in the late 1830s and early 1840s.
