Edmund Burke on slavery and the slave trade: a response to Gregory M. Collins

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This article responds to:

A response to Daniel I. O’Neill

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Notes on contributor

Daniel I. O’Neill is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Florida, 1507 W. University Avenue. PO Box 117325 Anderson Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Email: [email protected].

Notes

1 P.J. Marshall, Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 10–11; hereafter cited parenthetically as Marshall, page number.

2 Daniel I. O’Neill, Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016); hereafter cited parenthetically as O’Neill, page number. The arguments there draws on and extend those made in an earlier article with my colleague Margaret Kohn, ‘A Tale of Two Indias: Burke and Mill on Empire and Slavery in the West Indies and America’, Political Theory 34, no. 2 (2006): 191–228, for which all of the material on Burke was researched and written by me.

3 Gregory M. Collins, ‘Edmund Burke on Slavery and the Slave Trade’, Slavery & Abolition, 40, no. 3 (2019): 494–521; hereafter cited parenthetically by page number.

4 Edmund and Will Burke, An Account of the European Settlements in America. 2 vols. 1757. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972; hereafter cited parenthetically as Account, volume, page number.

5 Edmund Burke, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Paul Langford, general editor. 9 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981–2015), vol. 2, 55; hereafter cited parenthetically as W&S, volume, page number.

6 See Edmund Burke to Henry Dundas, 9 April 1792, in The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, 10 vols., ed. Thomas W. Copeland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958–1978), vol. 7, 123; hereafter cited parenthetically as Corr., volume, page number.

7 See Christopher L. Brown, ‘From Slaves to Subjects: Envisioning an Empire without Slavery, 1772–1834’, in Black Experience and the Empire, ed. Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 111–40, quoted at 121.

8 See also Daniel I. O’Neill, The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2007).

9 William Cobbett, ed., Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England (London: T.C. Hansard, 1806), vol. 29, 366–7.