The price of emancipation slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery /

Draper, Nicholas (1958-....)

The price of emancipation slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery / [Texte imprimé] : Nicholas Draper - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 1 vol. (XIII-401 p., 8 p. de pl.) : ill. ; 24 cm - Cambridge studies in economic history . - Cambridge studies in economic history (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) .

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The 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

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