Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, and Keith McClelland (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091834
- eISBN:
- 9781781707890
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091834.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be themodern global power, its commitment to ...
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Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be themodern global power, its commitment to representative government in Britain, free labour, the rule of law, and a benevolent imperial mission all aspects of a national identity rooted in notions of freedom and liberty. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery, slave-ownership and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain. This essays in this book explore fundamental issues including the economic impact of slavery and slave-ownership, the varied forms of labour deployed in the imperial world, including hired slaves and indentured labourers, the development of the C19th imperial state, slavery and public and family history, and contemporary debates about reparations. The contributors, drawn from Britain, the Caribbean and Mauritius, include some of the most distinguished writers in the field: Clare Anderson, Robin Blackburn, Heather Cateau, Mary Chamberlain, Chris Evans, Pat Hudson, Richard Huzzey, Zoë Laidlaw, Alison Light, Anita Rupprecht, Verene A. Shepherd, Andrea Stuart and Vijaya Teelock. The impact of slavery and slave-ownership is once again becoming a major area of historical and contemporary concern: this book makes a vital contribution to the subject.Less
Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be themodern global power, its commitment to representative government in Britain, free labour, the rule of law, and a benevolent imperial mission all aspects of a national identity rooted in notions of freedom and liberty. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery, slave-ownership and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain. This essays in this book explore fundamental issues including the economic impact of slavery and slave-ownership, the varied forms of labour deployed in the imperial world, including hired slaves and indentured labourers, the development of the C19th imperial state, slavery and public and family history, and contemporary debates about reparations. The contributors, drawn from Britain, the Caribbean and Mauritius, include some of the most distinguished writers in the field: Clare Anderson, Robin Blackburn, Heather Cateau, Mary Chamberlain, Chris Evans, Pat Hudson, Richard Huzzey, Zoë Laidlaw, Alison Light, Anita Rupprecht, Verene A. Shepherd, Andrea Stuart and Vijaya Teelock. The impact of slavery and slave-ownership is once again becoming a major area of historical and contemporary concern: this book makes a vital contribution to the subject.
Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, and Keith McClelland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091834
- eISBN:
- 9781781707890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091834.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
The introduction frames the contributions on the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833 by posing a number of key questions: ...
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The introduction frames the contributions on the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833 by posing a number of key questions: What was the character of the British imperial state in the wake of 1833?; What happened to the merchants and planters who had been central to the West Indian economy and to the culture they had elaborated?; What new forms of unfree labour emerged across the British Empire?; How can academic historians engage with the museums, family and local historians who have made critical contributions to the understanding of slavery and its legacies?; What are the issues around history, reparations and restitution in the present?Less
The introduction frames the contributions on the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833 by posing a number of key questions: What was the character of the British imperial state in the wake of 1833?; What happened to the merchants and planters who had been central to the West Indian economy and to the culture they had elaborated?; What new forms of unfree labour emerged across the British Empire?; How can academic historians engage with the museums, family and local historians who have made critical contributions to the understanding of slavery and its legacies?; What are the issues around history, reparations and restitution in the present?
Heather Cateau
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091834
- eISBN:
- 9781781707890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091834.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Following emancipation in 1833 there was an increasing divergence in British colonial policy and thinking about the empire between, on the one hand, the treatment of those freed from enslavement and ...
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Following emancipation in 1833 there was an increasing divergence in British colonial policy and thinking about the empire between, on the one hand, the treatment of those freed from enslavement and the conditions of migrant non-European indentured labour and on the other aboriginal peoples. As white settler societies expanded, aboriginal peoples were increasingly dispossessed, murdered and systematically disadvantaged. In this chapter, Zoë Laidlaw examines the ramifications of this disjuncture in the work of both organisations like the Aborigines Protection Society and in men like Earl Grey, one of the key imperial politicians of the age. The disjuncture is also apparent in much work in imperial history. In order to overcome this it is argued that bringing together the threads of connections between different imperial sites we can better understand the nature of the imperial state and bring into the same framework indigenous dispossession and slavery and labour exploitation.Less
Following emancipation in 1833 there was an increasing divergence in British colonial policy and thinking about the empire between, on the one hand, the treatment of those freed from enslavement and the conditions of migrant non-European indentured labour and on the other aboriginal peoples. As white settler societies expanded, aboriginal peoples were increasingly dispossessed, murdered and systematically disadvantaged. In this chapter, Zoë Laidlaw examines the ramifications of this disjuncture in the work of both organisations like the Aborigines Protection Society and in men like Earl Grey, one of the key imperial politicians of the age. The disjuncture is also apparent in much work in imperial history. In order to overcome this it is argued that bringing together the threads of connections between different imperial sites we can better understand the nature of the imperial state and bring into the same framework indigenous dispossession and slavery and labour exploitation.
Renata Ago
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226010571
- eISBN:
- 9780226008387
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226008387.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the historiography of material culture and the history of objects in seventeenth-century Rome. It suggests that a person’s relationship with his ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the historiography of material culture and the history of objects in seventeenth-century Rome. It suggests that a person’s relationship with his possessions and the singularly complex relationship between ownership and use of things distinguished the material culture of this period. It also contends that the preservation and collection of objects was equivalent to constructing a genealogy and aspiration to inalienability.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the historiography of material culture and the history of objects in seventeenth-century Rome. It suggests that a person’s relationship with his possessions and the singularly complex relationship between ownership and use of things distinguished the material culture of this period. It also contends that the preservation and collection of objects was equivalent to constructing a genealogy and aspiration to inalienability.
Renata Ago
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226010571
- eISBN:
- 9780226008387
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226008387.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter examines furniture ownership of people in seventeenth-century Rome. The analysis of Roman inventories reveals that Romans had a name or designation for every room in the house and that ...
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This chapter examines furniture ownership of people in seventeenth-century Rome. The analysis of Roman inventories reveals that Romans had a name or designation for every room in the house and that the furnishings of one room were clearly distinguished from those in another even during the first decades of the seventeenth century. It also discusses the valuation of furniture and the shift in taste in domestic spaces during the eighteenth century.Less
This chapter examines furniture ownership of people in seventeenth-century Rome. The analysis of Roman inventories reveals that Romans had a name or designation for every room in the house and that the furnishings of one room were clearly distinguished from those in another even during the first decades of the seventeenth century. It also discusses the valuation of furniture and the shift in taste in domestic spaces during the eighteenth century.
Renata Ago
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226010571
- eISBN:
- 9780226008387
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226008387.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter examines the collection of books in seventeenth-century Rome. It explains how men from legal professions usually owned large volumes of books while women rarely owned books. It also ...
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This chapter examines the collection of books in seventeenth-century Rome. It explains how men from legal professions usually owned large volumes of books while women rarely owned books. It also mentions that libraries were a great fashion among the cultured elite during this period and that book ownership was correlated with the possession of other categories of goods such as musical and scientific instruments or natural curiosities. This chapter discusses the collection of domestic account books and family correspondence.Less
This chapter examines the collection of books in seventeenth-century Rome. It explains how men from legal professions usually owned large volumes of books while women rarely owned books. It also mentions that libraries were a great fashion among the cultured elite during this period and that book ownership was correlated with the possession of other categories of goods such as musical and scientific instruments or natural curiosities. This chapter discusses the collection of domestic account books and family correspondence.
