The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery by Nicholas Draper

The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery

Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second

Nicholas Draper

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history challenging informative medium-paced
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When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave Compensation, which represent a complete censu...

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