Thursday, June 27, 2013
A0.08 (Oudemanhuispoort)
Nicholas Draper presents the latest results of the economic historical aspects of the research project Legacies of British Slave Ownership. His foundational analysis of the Slave Compensation records was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 as The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery. His articles 'The City of London and slavery: evidence from the first dock companies 1795-1800', Economic History Review, 61 (2) (May 2008) pp. 432-66, and '"Possessing slaves": ownership, compensation and metropolitan society in Britain at the time of Emancipation 1834-40', History Workshop Journal , 64 (Autumn 2007), pp. 74-102, serve as examples and inspiration for further European comparative investigations.
