The price of emancipation : slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery / Nicholas Draper.
"When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million [pounds] to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the commissioners of slave compensation, which represent a complete census of slave-ownership, this book for the...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Series: | Cambridge studies in economic history.
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HT1073 .D73 2010
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