Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

Nonfiction, History, British, Business & Finance
Cover of the book Legacies of British Slave-Ownership by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Katie Donington, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Katie Donington ISBN: 9781316054147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: August 28, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Katie Donington
ISBN: 9781316054147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: August 28, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.

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This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.

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