The price of emancipation : slave-ownership, compensation and Bri tish society at the end of slavery - Draper, Nicholas, 1958- (Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010)
The absentee slave-owner: representations and identities -- The deba te over compensation -- The distribution of slave-compensation -- The s tructure of slave-ownership -- The large-scale rentier-owners -- 'Widow s and orphans': small-scale British slave-owners -- Merchants, bankers and agents in the compensation process.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Slaves -- Emancipation -- West Indies, British -- History; Slaveholders