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Autore |
Beauvois Frédérique |
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Between blood and gold : the debates over compensation for slavery in the Americas / / Frederique Beauvois ; translated from the French by Andrene Everson |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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European Expansion and Global Interaction |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slaveholders - Legal status, laws, etc - France - History |
Slaveholders - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain - History |
Indemnity - France - History |
Indemnity - Great Britain - History |
Enslaved persons - Emancipation - France - History |
France Politics and government 1789-1900 |
Great Britain Politics and government 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- Introduction – COMPENSATION AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR ABOLITION -- Chapter 1 – COMPENSATION An Issue at the Heart of a Democratic Debate -- Chapter 2 – BETWEEN LEGALISM AND HUMANISM Compensation for Eminent Domain? -- Chapter 3 – COMPENSATION’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIMENSION Compensation as Aid -- Chapter 4 – COMPENSATION’S POLITICAL SIDE A Means of Ensuring Colonial Cooperation -- EPILOGUE The Many-Faceted Issue of Compensation -- APPENDIX Positions of Members of Parliament Concerning the Principal Abolition Topics -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth century—except the “victims” were not |
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slaves, but the slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark comparative study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain. It lays out in unprecedented detail the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play, establishing a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath of slavery in the Americas. |
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