Legacies of British Slave-Ownership by Catherine Hall, Nichol... - 9781107040052

Legacies of British Slave-OwnershipColonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain\nAuthor(s): Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington, Rachel Lang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107040052, 978-1107040052\nSynopsis\nThis 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'.