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#526030 in Books Hall Catherine 2016-09-29 2016-09-29Original language:English 9.02 x .71 x 5.98l; #File Name: 1316635260338 pagesLegacies of British Slave Ownership
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. EssentialBy Peter StreetActually I think it is probably worth five stars; but it's part of a debate which has a long way to go; and against the outcome of which it will be judged. It is also one outcome of an unprecedented research project at University College; London; which has taken a single source; the details of the compensation paid to the owners of slaves in British territories in the mid 1830s; when slavery was finally "abolished" ( for which expression read" replaced by a system of apprenticeship which enabled slave owners to carry on exploiting the "free" labourers on their estates for a few more years"); identify them and their activities and try to assess what difference the compensation made to its recipients. Only a very few actually used it to improve the condition of the former slaves themselves; and the evidence even for that is very scanty.The debate is about the role of slavery in the growth of the British economy as a whole over the two hundred and more years before emancipation; and the material here is only a partial contribution to it. The argument first advanced by Eric Williams; later the first Prime Minister of Trinidad that the slave economy played a decisive role is still open.But this; and Its immediate predecessor; co-author Nicholas Draper's The Price of Emancipation; are vitally important.I still remember my first evening at my British university; in the mid 1950s; when; puzzling over how exactly to eat melon without making a fool of myself; I discovered at dinner I was sitting next to an Etonian; a descendant of a minor Scottish noble line through a very distinguished military figure and who is probably now a pillar of the establishment in some Deputy-Lord-this-or-that form or other. In the brusque gruff way of the period and his peers he talked - not to me - about time he had recently spent in West Africa; learning the way of the world by working on a plantation. Of his black fellow-workers - and this was someone who had already been through the alleged social university of National Service - he said; and I quote; "The only thing they understand is the whip". That was a member of my generation; which was also that of future US figures such as Paul Sarbanes and Frank Sieverts. What; of course; he meant was that that was what he thought HE understood. This was a minor member of the British governing elite beginning his - as they called it in the West Indies - "seasoning"; and starting from there; then..............What this book and its companion and the databases which support them are beginning to do is - among other things - to explore that conversation indirectly. I can't imagine any more cogent historical research than that.
