Slave Owner and Paternalist

Sir William Young (1749-1815) in England and the Caribbean
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83765-316-4
Verlag: Boydell Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

An account of the life and ideas of Sir William Young, a leading opponent of the abolition of slavery, who used the rhetoric of paternalism to argue that slavery could be ameliorated to become a benign system.

This book charts the life and ideas of Sir William Young, owner of enslaved people on Antigua, St Vincent and Tobago and a leading opponent of the abolition of slavery. It outlines how he used the rhetoric of paternalism to argue that slavery could be ameliorated to become a benign system, akin to the paternalism which he worked towards in rural England, and contrasts his aims width his failure to implement them. It considers his place in the British elite - country gentleman, active back-bench MP and a man of learning - and examines his activity in attempting to improve conditions for the rural English poor. It explores his eventual financial failure, which included the loss of both his West Indian and his English estates, and his last years as Governor of Tobago. William Young was a considerable figure in both the world of the Caribbean, source of his wealth, and the world of London and the English countryside, where he spent that wealth. Young's doctrines of paternalism, unreal and self-serving as they may have been, were widely accepted by the British upper classes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, P. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Map
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction: William Young in England and the Caribbean

1. Buckinghamshire and the Poor Law
2. The Abolition of the Slave Trade and the State of Africa
3. The Labouring Poor in England and the Enslaved in the Caribbean
4. St Vincent and the Loss of an Inheritance
5. The Enslaved on Young's Plantations: Antigua and St Vincent
6. Tobago

Conclusion
Bibliographical Essay

Über Autor(innen)

Marshall, P. J.
P. J. MARSHALL was Lecturer, Reader and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College, London, 1959-93 and President Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000.

P. J. Marshall was Lecturer, Reader and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College, London, 1959-93 and President Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000. Books published include: East India Fortunes (1976); Bengal: The British Bridgehead (1988); edited, Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. ii, The Eighteenth Century (1998); The Making and Unmaking of Empires (2005); Remaking the British Atlantic (2012); and Edmund Burke and the British Empire in West Indies (2019).