In this sense the radical consciousness defined the Caribbean slave as the personification of the opposite of British Liberty. Indeed for Radicals being British meant being free, and Britannia and Liberty existed in a precise contradistinction to slavery. The English radical collective consciousness was an ideological mongrel, but one of the few constants in its evolution was a well defined sense of Nationhood, and this Nationalism/Patriotism, when it did incorporate the colonies, defined itself in contra-distinction to them.
The cultural interface between radical reform and race in the period 1790-1820, as in any period, is contentious, a tricky terrain.
