Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781107696563
UPC: 9781107696563
ISBN: 9781107696563
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Book Title: The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compen
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 550 g
Author: Nicholas Draper
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
