Nicholas Draper (University College London)

The Price of Emancipation

Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781107696563
• ISBN-10: 1107696569
• Artikelnr.: 39104133

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Draper is Research Associate at the Department of History, University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

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.