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21 de nov. de 2023 · Dundas was President of the Board of Control over the East India Company from 1793-1801; the History of Parliament describes his India interests thus: India was doubtless the brightest jewel in his [Dundas'] crown: it made possible what Canning called his system of ‘pillage and patronage’. It was a commonplace of the time that ‘Scotland ...
10 de nov. de 2021 · Dundas’ parliamentary opposition to abolition during wartime was particularly evident in March 1796, when he spoke against immediate abolition in the House of Commons, whilst his phalanx of Scottish MPs voted to block abolitionist proposals. There is no historiographical controversy about Henry Dundas’ culpability in delaying abolition.
Henry Dundas helped to move Britain toward the ultimate goal of abolition of the slave trade and slavery. As a lawyer, Dundas fought in Scottish courts for the freedom of a slave, and forever changed the law of slavery in Scotland. As a politician, he consistently and publicly condemned slavery and the slave trade as beingcontrary to justice ...
10 de nov. de 2020 · Dundas proposed a compromise – a motion for abolition, but by gradual means. 18. In a radical departure from the approach of Wilberforce and other abolitionists, Dundas proposed an end to hereditary slavery, i.e. an end to the right slave owners to lay claim to the newborn children of their slaves.
Dundas could be relied on to deprecate ‘parsimony’ when the Prince’s finances were submitted to parliamentary debate.13 Pitt, perhaps, found Dundas less conciliatory: on 18 Feb. and 15 Mar. 1796 he was once more publicly at odds with him over the abolition of the slave trade, Dundas remaining, to the great satisfaction of the West Indian lobby, which published the latter speech, an ...
15 de set. de 2021 · Dundas – the most powerful Scot in the British Government at the end of the eighteenth century – was a man known by many names, including the Uncrowned King of Scotland. He was the Lord Advocate, an MP for Edinburgh and Midlothian, and the First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1802, he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Melville and Baron ...
10 de jun. de 2020 · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, was a Scottish advocate and Tory politician, who entered the Cabinet in 1791 as Secretary of State.
