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

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Draper is a Research Associate in 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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• Autori: Nicholas Draper, Nicholas (University College London) Draper
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521115254
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11525-4
• Pagine: 416
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni