Who abolished slavery slave revolts and abolitionism a debate with joo pedro marques edited by seymour drescher and pieter c emmer 224 pages bibliog index isbn 978 1 84545 636 8 12000 8500 hb published february 2010 who abolished slavery in the dutch caribbean pieter c emmer chapter 3. Williams argument revolved around the abolition of the slave trade 1807 the abolition of slavery itself 1833 8 and the complete removal of the preference on cane sugar 1846 drescher disappointingly limited his study to 1770 1823 only encompassing the abolition of the slave trade itself and for that reason it was deeply flawed. Civilizing insurgency two variants of slave revolts in the age of revolution seymour drescher chapter 5 the wars of independence slave soldiers and the issue of abolition in spanish south america peter blanchard chapter 6 shipboard slave revolts and abolition david eltis and stanley l engerman chapter 7. Seymour drescher abolition a history of slavery and and the acts to abolish the slave trade and slavery were not simply or primarily a means of containing colonial crisis abroad and the radical politics of working class struggle at home fear and conflict in the plantation zone panics about slave revolt and outbursts of rebellion