The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843 - Softcover

Butler, Kathleen Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807845019 ISBN 13: 9780807845011

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995

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Book by Butler Kathleen Mary

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This is a painstakingly researched, clearly written, and valuable contribution to British colonial history."American Historical Review" Carefully crafted and meticulously researched.David Barry Gaspar, Duke University This is an important book that adds considerably to our knowledge of the tangled history of British abolitionism."Colonial Latin American Historical Review" "This is a painstakingly researched, clearly written, and valuable contribution to British colonial history."American Historical Review"" "Carefully crafted and meticulously researched.David Barry Gaspar, Duke University" This study . . . is well worth sitting down and grappling with."The Americas" An admirable study."New West Indian Guide"

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The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.' In this first comparative analysis of the impact of the award on the colonies, Mary Butler focuses on Jamaica and Barbados, two of Britain's premier sugar islands. The Economics of Emancipation examines the effect of compensated emancipation on colonial credit, landownership, plantation land values, and the broader spheres of international trade and finance. Butler also brings the role and status of women as creditors and plantation owners into focus for the first time. Through her analysis of rarely used chancery court records, attorneys' letters, and compensation returns, Butler underscores the fragility of the colonial economies of Jamaica and Barbados, illustrates the changing relationship between planters and merchants, and offers new insights into the social and political history of the West Indies and Britain.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0807845019
• ISBN 13: 9780807845011
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216