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Book SynopsisExplores the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper and Keith McClelland
Part I: Formations of capital: beyond ‘merchants and planters’
1. The scope of accumulation and the reach of moral perception: slavery, market revolution and Atlantic capitalism – Robin Blackburn
2. Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth: a contribution to the debate – Pat Hudson
3. Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation – Chris Evans
Part II: From slavery to indenture
4. From slavery to indenture: scripts for slavery’s endings – Anita Rupprecht
5. Re-examining the labour matrix in the British Caribbean, 1750–1850 – Heather Cateau
6. After emancipation: empires and imperial formations – Clare Anderson
Part III: The imperial state
7. Imperial complicity: indigenous dispossession in British history and history writing – Zoë Laidlaw
8. Concepts of liberty: freedom, laissez faire and the state after Britain’s abolition of slavery – Richard Huzzey
Part IV: Public histories, family histories
9. Family history: history’s poor relation? – Alison Light
10. Writing Sugar in the Blood – Andrea Stuart
11. Legacy and lineage: family histories in the Caribbean – Mary Chamberlain
Part V: Reparations, restitution and the historian
12. The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: ‘eyewash’, ‘storm in a teacup’ or promise of a new future for Mauritians? – Vijaya Teelock
13. Jamaica and the debate over reparation for slavery: an overview – Verene A. Shepherd
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