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Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imper...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McClelland, Keith (Editor ), Draper, Nicholas, 1958- (Editor ), Hall, Catherine, 1946- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Colección:UCL/Neale series on British history.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery > West Indies, British > History > Congresses.
Slaveholders > Great Britain > History > Congresses.
Slaves > Emancipation > West Indies, British > History > Congresses.
Slaves > Emancipation > Great Britain > History > Congresses.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Great Britain > Congresses.
Slavery > Colonies > Great Britain > History > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction / Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper and Keith McClelland
  • part I. Formations of capital : beyond 'merchants and planters'
  • 1. The scope of accumulation and the reach of moral perception : slavery, market revolution and Atlantic capitalism / Robin Blackburn
  • 2. Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth : a contribution to the debate / Pat Hudson
  • 3. Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation / Chris Evans
  • part II. From slavery to indenture
  • 4. From slavery to indenture : scripts for slavery's endings / Anita Rupprecht
  • 5. Re-examining the labour matrix in the British Caribbean 1750 to 1850 / Heather Cateau
  • 6. After emancipation : empires and imperial formations / Clare Anderson
  • part III. The imperial state
  • 7. Imperial complicity : indigenous dispossession in British history and history writing / Zoë Laidlaw
  • 8. Concepts of liberty : freedom, laissez-faire and the state after Britain's abolition of slavery / Richard Huzzey
  • part IV. Public histories, family histories
  • 9. Family history : history's poor relation? / Alison Light
  • 10. Writing Sugar in the blood / Andrea Stuart
  • 11. Legacy and lineage : family histories in the Caribbean / Mary Chamberlain
  • part V. Reparations, restitution and the historian
  • 12. The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission : 'eyewash', 'storm in a teacup' or promise of a new future for Mauritians? / Vijayalakshmi Teelock
  • 13. Jamaica and the debate over reparation for slavery : an overview / Verene A. Shepherd.

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