The price of emancipation
Subtitle: slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery
By: Nicholas Draper
Series: Cambridge studies in economic history; Cambridge studies in economic history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780521115254
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The absentee slave-owner: representations and identities; title: The debate over compensation; title: The distribution of slave-compensation; title: The structure of slave-ownership; title: The large-scale rentier-owners; title: 'Widows and orphans': small-scale British slave-owners; title: Merchants, bankers and agents in the compensation process.