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Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic - The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 (Hardcover)
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Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic - The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry
capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on
slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America,
Africa, and Europe. S. D. Smith examines the formation of this
British Atlantic World from the perspective of Yorkshire
aristocratic families who invested in the West Indies. At the heart
of the book lies a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles
and the commercial and cultural network they created with their
associates. The Lascelles exhibited high levels of business
innovation and were accomplished risk-takers, overcoming daunting
obstacles to make fortunes out of the New World. Dr Smith shows how
the family raised themselves first to super-merchant status and
then to aristocratic pre-eminence. He also explores the tragic
consequences for enslaved Africans with chapters devoted to the
slave populations and interracial relations. This widely researched
book sheds new light on the networks and the culture of
imperialism.
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