The article focuses on the criticisms made by reviewers on Marika Sherwood's book After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade. Richard Drayton, Imperial History senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge in England, pointed out the book questions the triumphalist narrative of British abolition. Stephen Small of the University of California, Berkeley and University of Lagos, Nigeria's history professor Ayodeji Olukoju were among the other reviewers of the work.
