ABSTRACT
What do the lives and actions of these four Quaker anti-slave trade activists collectively reveal about British anti-slavery? The first part of this final chapter shows how the writings and activities of Joseph Woods, James Phillips, George Harrison and Samuel Hoare establish a basis for understanding the origins and development of the anti-slave trade strand of British abolitionism. The second part of the chapter explores how their lives and writings suggest new approaches to understanding the changing politics, economics and society of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
