The Price of Emancipation by Nicholas Draper

The Price of Emancipation by Nicholas Draper

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.

Review of the hardback: 'The Price of Emancipation is a well-researched and argued book, and a major contribution to the study of British history and West Indian slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century' Stanley Engerman, Journal of Economic History
Review of the hardback: '… an important contribution to our understanding of why compensation was introduced, and how it was funded and administered.' The Black and Asian Studies Association Newsletter
Review of the hardback: 'Draper has written an outstandingly good and important work.' H-LatAm
'… a valuable contribution to emancipation studies, and most appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level courses.' Scott Hancock, The New West Indian Guide

Nicholas Draper is Research Associate at the Department of History, University College London.

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ISBN 13	9781107696563
ISBN 10	1107696569
Title	The Price of Emancipation
Author	Nicholas Draper
Series	Cambridge Studies In Economic History - Second Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2013-07-18
Number of pages	416
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