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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain by Nicholas Draper, Rachel Lang, Keith McClelland, Catherine Hall, Katie Donington (Hardcover, 2014)

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.

Author
Nicholas Draper, Rachel Lang, Keith Mcclelland, Catherine Hall, Katie Donington
Publication Name
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
338 Pages

Title_Author
Catherine Hall, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Keith Mcclelland, Katie Donington
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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