There to sing the song of Moses: John Jea’s Methodism and Working-Class Attitudes to Slavery in Liverpool and Portsmouth, 1801–1817

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the word ‘slavery’ held different meanings in different ports. For some of those working aboard ships and in dockyards in Britain’s ‘slave ports’ before 1807, it was perceived, however unfortunately, as the source of their own comfort, or even...

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Zusammenfassung:	During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the word ‘slavery’ held different meanings in different ports. For some of those working aboard ships and in dockyards in Britain’s ‘slave ports’ before 1807, it was perceived, however unfortunately, as the source of their own comfort, or even survival. Slavery generated employment for entire working-class communities; not just sailors, but an entire secondary infrastructure of shipwrights, dockers, Warehouse labourers, publicans, carpenters, prostitutes, chefs, weavers, shopkeepers and service staff were employed because of it. Without slavery, some thought, they might starve. in other seaport communities, ‘slavery’ meant something else: not a