This book addresses a neglected aspect of the history of Britain's centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery. For a half century after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, individual Britons and British enterprises continued to own enslaved people and invest in slavery in Brazil. This book explores the material basis of this entanglement, in the context of British anti-slavery policy, to explain how the last vestiges of British slaveholding in the Americas were only extinguished by abolition in Brazil in 1888.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-1-83998-466-2 (9781839984662)
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Joseph Mulhern is a historian of nineteenth-century Anglo-Brazilian relations and an honorary fellow of Durham University's Department of History.
Introduction; Ch. 1: 'Advocates and supporters': British Merchants and the Slave Trade to Brazil; Ch. 2: Lobbyists and Silent Beneficiaries: British Slaveholding in Brazil, Part I: 1808-1850; Part II: 1850-1888; Ch. 3: Human Collateral: British Banking and Brazilian Slavery; Ch. 4: Obfuscating Entanglement: Free and Slave Labour on the London and Brazilian Bank's Angelica Plantation, 1871-1881; Epilogue: Tracing the Legacies of British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery; Conclusion: Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Brazil's British Century.
