The Price of Emancipation

The Price of Emancipation
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0521115256
ISBN-13 : 9780521115254
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Book Synopsis The Price of Emancipation by : Nicholas Draper

Download or read book The Price of Emancipation written by Nicholas Draper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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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