[Freedom's Debt] will be a standard source for specialists for many years to come.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History Well researched and coherently organized...convincing, compelling, and important...Freedom's Debt does for English history something like what Edmund S. Morgan did for American history in American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
William and Mary Quarterly Pettigrew's fascinating and well-researched book is an ... Read moreessential contribution to the history of the Anglo-American slave trade.
Journal of Early American History A deeply researched, persuasive study on the political disputes between the RAC and what the author calls the independent slave traders who opposed the RAC's monopoly and were victorious by 1712 in deregulating Britain's slave trade.
H-Net Accessible and very interesting. . . . An admirable account of how the [Royal African Company] and its rival British slave-trading enterprises shaped, and were shaped by, the politics of the wider society they inhabited.
Enterprise & Society [A] carefully researched book.
Journal of American History Cogently argued.
Jrnl of Southern History Pettigrew's work is a much needed examination of the political and economic underpinnings of the early years of the British slave trade.
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