Price of Emancipation. Slave ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery

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Deals with the extent of slave ownership and its impact on British society using in particular the records of compensation paid to slave owners on abolition of slavery in the 1830s - 'moving away from the historiographical tradition of isolated case studies, it reveals the extent of slave-ownership among metropolitan elites, and identifies concentrations of both rentier and mercantile slave-holders, tracing their influence in local and national politics, in business and in institutions such as the Church'. Chapters include: 'Absentee slave-owner - representations and identities'; 'The debate over compensation'; 'The distribution of slave compensation'; 'The structure of slave ownership'; 'The large scale rentier-owners'; 'Widows and orphans - small scale British slave owners'; 'Merchants, bankers and agents in the compensation process'. Touches on very many families inc Hibberts, Lascelles, Barings, Pinneys, etc, etc