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Title:
THE PRICE OF EMANCIPATION
SLAVE-OWNERSHIP, COMPENSATION AND BRITISH SOCIETY AT THE END OF SLAVERY
By:
Nicholas Draper
Format:
Hardback
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ISBN 10:
0521115256
ISBN 13:
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.
Illustrations:
19 b/w illus. 9 tables
Publication:
UK
Imprint:
Cambridge University Press
Prizes:
Winner of Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize 2009
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