My "score" of 3 Stars should not be seen as a criticism but as a neutral vote.

For me, this is not a book for reading cover to cover but it is a great book for research. I was fascinated and expectant when this book crossed my path as we Brits have done a good job of half-acknowledging our part in the slave trade by keeping one eye closed. This is a commendable volume for its research but I was expecting something different.

An interesting read , I would recommend to anyone interested in this subject.I
Learned a lot that I did not know before,about the slave trade and the abolition of it.

A great book about a group of not well known abolitionists. I have recently also read a graphic novel about Benjamin Lay a little known abolitionist Quaker. It has been amazing to read about the lives of these little known people who fought for such a just cause. I think many will enjoy reading about these men's lives.

I got this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.

A meticulously detailed and carefully researched accounting of slavery in Yorkshire and its ripples throughout Europe and the Americas. I like the introspection the authors questions evoked in me. Much of the inequality that present day people tut tut about in history still continues today due to many of the same or similar circumstances. Anyone with relations from 18th-19th century Western Europe or West Indies (heaviest focus on the Yorkshire area) and carrying out genealogical research may find Parts I & II of this book of great use in particular. The author carefully notes relations and marriages between slaving families as well as their benefactors over subsequent generations. He also lists of free black people of Yorkshire. Part III focuses on abolition and Unitarians' role in this movement. By no means a light read, it is quite thought-provoking and highly informative.

An embracing book about what started as a small group of people trying to abolish slavery from the UK to around the world