The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series) Book

When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million [pounds] to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the commissioners of slave compensation, which represent a...Read More

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  • Foyles

    The first comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society.

  • 0521115256
  • 9780521115254
  • Nicholas Draper
  • 17 December 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 416
  • 1
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