THE PRICE OF EMANCIPATION by Nicholas Draper ( 9780521115254 )

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THE PRICE OF EMANCIPATION
SLAVE-OWNERSHIP, COMPENSATION AND BRITISH SOCIETY AT THE END OF SLAVERY

By:

Nicholas Draper

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0521115256

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9780521115254

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series

Pages:

416

Description:

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society.

Synopsis:

When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid GBP20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave Compensation, which represent a complete census of slave-ownership, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society. Moving away from the historiographical tradition of isolated case studies, it reveals the extent of slave-ownership among metropolitan elites, and identifies concentrations of both rentier and mercantile slave-holders, tracing their influence in local and national politics, in business and in institutions such as the Church. In analysing this permeation of British society by slave-owners and their success in securing compensation from the state, the book challenges conventional narratives of abolitionist Britain and provides a fresh perspective of British society and politics on the eve of the Victorian era.

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19 b/w illus. 9 tables

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize 2009

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