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The price of emancipation : slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery / Nicholas Draper

Draper, Nicholas, 1958- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

1. paperback edition (with corrections)

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

xiii, 401 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm

Englisch

Originally published: 2010. - Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-107-69656-3 (Paperback); 978-0-521-11525-4 (Hardback)

OCoLC: 915024750 (aus SWB)     

NW 2350  | NW 8295      Ähnliche Literatur

HT1163

326.80941 ; 306.09 ; 306.3/620941

*Großbritannien ; Abolitionismus ; Sklavenhalter ; Kompensation ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1833     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Slaves -- Emancipation -- History -- West Indies, British ; Slaveholders -- History -- West Indies, British ; Slavery -- History -- West Indies, British ; Slaves -- Emancipation -- History -- Great Britain ; Slaveholders -- History -- Great Britain ; Slavery -- History -- Great Britain ; Slaveholders ; Slavery ; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Great Britain -- West Indies -- British West Indies -- History

"When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833, the British government paid £20 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 for the first time 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 amongst 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 analysipermeationermation of British society by slave-owners, and their success in securing compensation from the state, the book challenges convenarrativesrativess of abolitionist Britain and provides a fresh perspective of British society and politics on the eve of the Victorian era