Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the

Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

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.
Country USA
Brand Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer Cambridge University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 13 b/w illus.
ReleaseDate 2016-09-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781316635261

Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain