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This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Possessing people: absentee slave-owners within British society; 3. Helping make Britain great: the commercial legacies of slave-ownership in Britain; 4. Redefining the West India interest: politics and the legacies of slave-ownership; 5. Reconfiguring race: the stories the slave-owners told; 6. Transforming capital: slavery, family, commerce and the making of the Hibbert family; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Making history in a prosopography; Appendix 2. Glossary of claimant categories; Appendix 3. A note on the database; Bibliography.
About the author
Catherine Hall is a well-known historian and is presently Professor of History at University College London.Nicholas Draper is a Senior Researcher in the Department of History at University College London. His areas of interest include slavery and abolition.Keith McClelland is a Senior Researcher in the Department of History at University College London and a well-established historian of the nineteenth century.Katie Donington is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at University College London.Rachel Lang is an administrator in the Department of History at University College London.
Summary
This volume re-inscribes slave-ownership in the history of nineteenth-century Britain, highlighting the crucial roles played by slave-owners and their immediate families in the formation of Victorian economy and society. It combines approaches from social, cultural, political and economic history to rethink the relationship between metropolitan Britain and colonial slavery.
