Contents
1‘The principal ingredient necessary to form a good planter’: Education and the Making of a Transatlantic Elite
2‘The Highe Priest hath banished you forth’: Missionary Protestantism and the Origins of the British Empire
3‘The Glory of their times’: Natural Philosophy, the Law, and the Spoils of Empire
4‘Several University Gentlemen, who have quite altered their Tone’: The Problem of the British Slave Trade
5‘Those who wish to see the Slave System decline, and at length gradually and safely’: The Ambitions of Cambridge Abolitionism
6‘We presume that its influence is nowhere greater than in the Universities’: Ending and Defending American Slavery
Appendix A: Cambridge Families and the Transatlantic Economy