The Unnatural TradeA look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a "dread perversion" of nature? Focusing on slavery in the Americas, and the Caribbean in particular, alongside travelers' accounts of West Africa, Brycchan Carey shows that before