Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

By: Catherine Hall Nicholas Draper Keith McClelland Katie Donington and Rachel Lang and Catherine Hall and Nicholas Draper and Keith Mcclelland and Katie Donington

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781316054147
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 08/05/14
Copyrighted By:: Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington and Rachel Lang
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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