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The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery - Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series Draper, Nicholas (University College London)
The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery - Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
Draper, Nicholas (University College London)
Challenging conventional narratives of abolitionist Britain, this book, provides a comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society by drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave Compensation, who were responsible for distributing compensation to slave-owners when slavery was abolished.
416 pages, 19 b/w illus. 9 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 17, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521115254 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 416 |
| Dimensions | 234 × 162 × 23 mm · 788 g |
| Language | English |