Legacies of British Slave-Ownership This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writ- ing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which the Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian ‘decline’. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relation- ship between past and present. CATHERINE HALL is Professor of History at University College London. NICHOLAS DRAPER is Co-director of the Structure and Signifcance of British Caribbean Slave-Ownership 1763–1833 project in the Department of History at University College London. KEITH MCCLELLAND is Co-director of the Structure and Signifcance of British Caribbean Slave-Ownership 1763–1833 project in the Department of History at University College London. KATIE DONINGTON is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at University College London. RACHEL LANG is an Administrator in the Department of History at University College London. www.cambridge.org © in this web service Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04005-2 - Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington and Rachel Lang Frontmatter More information