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02100aam a2200421 i 4500 001 D91D7732227C11ECA4F9151B2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211001010014 008 201214t20212021stkab b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020476821 020 $a 1786898861 020 $a 9781786898869 035 $a (OCoLC)1242856633 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CNNWP $d NZAUC $d DLC $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 306.362 $2 23 100 1 $a Renton, Alex, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Blood legacy : $b reckoning with a family's story of slavery / $c Alex Renton. 246 30 $a Reckoning with a family's story of slavery 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Canongate, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 388 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. Hometown: Toronto, ON. 505 0 $a Tobago -- 1773-1785 -- Jamaica -- 1769-1875. 600 10 $a Renton, Alex, $d 1961- $x Family. 650 0 $a Slavery $x Social aspects $z Europe. 650 0 $a Slavery $x Social aspects $z Caribbean Area. 650 0 $a Slavery $x Political aspects $z Europe. 650 0 $a Slavery $x Political aspects $z Caribbean Area. 650 0 $a Distributive justice. 650 0 $a Compensation (Law) 941 $a 5 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030120.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221004015701.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013231.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20211002012322.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211001010121.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D91D7732227C11ECA4F9151B2FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search