Price of Emancipation - Slave Ownership, Compensation British Society At End of Slavery

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Draper is Research Associate at the Department of History, University College London. Klappentext The first comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society. Zusammenfassung Challenging conventional narratives of abolitionist Britain! this book! provides a comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society by drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave Compensation! who were responsible for distributing compensation to slave-owners when slavery was abolished. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The absentee slave-owner: representations and identities; 2. The debate over compensation; 3. The distribution of slave compensation; 4. The structure of slave ownership; 5. The large-scale rentier owners; 6. 'Widows and orphans': small-scale British slave-owners; 7. Merchants, bankers and agents in the compensation process; 8. Conclusion; Appendix.

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• Authors: Nicholas Draper, Nicholas (University College London) Draper
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521115254
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11525-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries