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Author:

Scanlan, Padraic X. author.

Title:

Slave empire : how slavery built modern Britain / Padraic X. Scanlan.

Publisher:

Robinson,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

vii, 448 pages : map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Slave trade--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Slave trade--History--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.
1700-1899

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

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.

ISBN:

1472142357
9781472142351

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1197763263

LCCN:

2020416550

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)