Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery / Alex Renton.
When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the w...
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Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Canongate,
2021.
©2021. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Tobago
- 1773-1785
- Jamaica
- 1769-1875.