[PDF.38gx] The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series)

The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series)

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 | #2318718 in Books |  Nicholas Draper |  2013-07-18 |  2013-07-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.87 x5.98l,1.22 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Catching up.|By Peter Street|This book isn't the conclusion of a scheme of research - it's the first step. The subjection isn't compensation but the compensated. When the British Parliament finally set about doing for the Caribbean and other enslaved its subjects claimed as property it had to accept that it was depriving them of valuable chattels - compensation was therefore p| |"... well-researched and argued book, and a major contribution to the study of British history and West Indian slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century." |Stanley Engerman, Journal of Economic History

"... well-researched and insightful

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 cas...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series)   |  Nicholas Draper.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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