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Slave empire : how slavery built modern Britain

Scanlan, Padraic X. (author.).

Summary: In intimate, human detail, the chapters show how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, this book shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.

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  • ISBN: 1472142357
  • ISBN: 9781472142351
  • Physical Description: vii, 448 pages : map ; 24 cm
    print
  • Publisher: London : Robinson, 2020.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-422) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: slavery, freedom and empire -- Blood and sugar: Britain's wars for slavery -- Money, death and secrecy: the plantation -- Haiti, America and the rise of antislavery -- The British conscience and abolition of the slave trade -- Amelioration and rebellion -- Demerara and the antislavery revival -- Emancipation -- Apprenticeship -- Conclusion: slave empire, liberal empire.
Subject: Slave trade -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Slave trade -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Slavery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library HT 1161 S33 2020 (Text) 26040003404916 Main Collection Volume hold Available -

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