Books by J. R. Oldfield

Chords of Freedom offers valuable new insights into the ways in which Britons have been taught to remember transatlantic slavery, and how our views of figures like William Wilberforce have been revised to meet the changing demands of the 'present'. -- .

Taking a fresh look at anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this book uncovers the structure, dynamics and flexibility of transatlantic abolitionism during the Age of Revolution. It reframes the abolition movement as a broad international network of activists across metropolitan centres and remote outposts.