Humdrum Selfishness
Nicholas Guyatt: Simon Schama’s Chauvinism, 6 April 2006
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
by Simon Schama.
BBC, 448 pp., £20, September 2005,0 563 48709 7 Show More
by Simon Schama.
BBC, 448 pp., £20, September 2005,
“... worked to free black slaves in England who had been brought back from the Caribbean by their masters. These efforts culminated in the Somerset decision of 1772, a legal circumlocution which may not actually have ended slavery but which persuaded a good many people – planters included – that it had done. During the Revolution itself, the loyal British ... ”