ISBN:
9780521115254
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 401 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in economic history
DDC:
306.3/620941
Keywords:
Geschichte 1833
;
Geschichte
;
Sklaverei
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
History
;
Slaveholders
;
Slavery
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
History
;
Slaveholders
;
Slavery
;
Kompensation
;
Sklavenhalter
;
Soziale Situation
;
Abolitionismus
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Abolitionismus
;
Sklavenhalter
;
Kompensation
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte 1833
Abstract:
"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 for the first time 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"--Provided by publisher.
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