Hall / McClelland / Draper Legacies of British Slave-ownership

Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-316-05650-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Catherine

McClelland, Keith

Draper, Nick

Donington, Kate

Lang, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Possessing people: absentee slave-owners within British society; 3. Helping make Britain great: the commercial legacies of slave-ownership in Britain; 4. Redefining the West India interest: politics and the legacies of slave-ownership; 5. Reconfiguring race: the stories the slave-owners told; 6. Transforming capital: slavery, family, commerce and the making of the Hibbert family; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Making history in a prosopography; Appendix 2. Glossary of claimant categories; Appendix 3. A note on the database; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Donington, Kate
Katie Donington is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at University College London.

Lang, Rachel
Rachel Lang is an administrator in the Department of History at University College London.

Hall, Catherine
Catherine Hall is a well-known historian and is presently Professor of History at University College London.

McClelland, Keith
Keith McClelland is a Senior Researcher in the Department of History at University College London and a well-established historian of the nineteenth century.

Draper, Nick
Nicholas Draper is a Senior Researcher in the Department of History at University College London. His areas of interest include slavery and abolition.