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Slave empire : how slavery built modern Britain

Scanlan, Padraic X., author

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This compelling book makes a huge contribution to our understanding of the processes which led to abolition. The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. 'Slave Empire' puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, the chapters show how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery.

• Publisher: Robinson
• Subject: Slave trade Great Britain Colonies History 18th century. / Slave trade Great Britain Colonies History 19th century. / Slave trade Great Britain History 18th century. / Slave trade Great Britain History 19th century. / Slavery Great Britain History 18th century. / Slavery Great Britain History 19th century. / Society. / Great Britain Colonies Africa. / Great Britain History 18th century. / Great Britain History 19th century.
• ISBN: 9781472142351, 9781472142344

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