TY - BOOK AU - Draper, Nicholas, TI - The price of emancipation: slave-ownership, compensation and Bri tish society at the end of slavery T2 - Cambridge studies in economic history SN - 9781107696563 U1 - 306.362/0941 23 PY - 0000///201 0 CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation KW - West Indies, British KW - History KW - Slaveholders N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -