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The Price of Emancipation - Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Paperback)
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The Price of Emancipation - Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government
paid GBP20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved
received nothing. Drawing on the records of the Commissioners of
Slave Compensation, which represent a complete census of
slave-ownership, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the
extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on
British society. Moving away from the historiographical tradition
of isolated case studies, it reveals the extent of slave-ownership
among metropolitan elites, and identifies concentrations of both
rentier and mercantile slave-holders, tracing their influence in
local and national politics, in business and in institutions such
as the Church. In analysing this permeation of British society by
slave-owners and their success in securing compensation from the
state, the book challenges conventional narratives of abolitionist
Britain and provides a fresh perspective of British society and
politics on the eve of the Victorian era.
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