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Between Blood and Gold : the Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas.
Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth ce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2016.
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| Colección: | European expansion and global interaction.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tables; Preface; Introduction
- Compensation as a Driving Force for Abolition; Chapter 1
- Compensation: An Issue at the Heart of a Democratic Debate; Chapter 2
- Between Legalism and Humanism: Compensation for Eminent Domain?; Chapter 3
- Compensation's Economic and Social Dimension: Compensation as Aid; Chapter 4
- Compensation's Political Side: A Means of Ensuring Colonial Cooperation; Epilogue: The Many-Faceted Issue of Compensation; Appendix: Positions of Members of Parliament Concerning the Principal Abolition Topics; Bibliography; Index.