Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and SlaveryEdmund Burke was both a political thinker of the utmost importance and an active participant in the day to day business of politics. It is the latter role that is the concern of this book, showing Burke engaging with issues concerning the West Indies, which featured so largely in British concerns in the later eighteenth century. Initially, Burke saw the islands as a means by which his close connections might make their fortunes, later he was concerned