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Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery / Alex Renton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Renton, Alex, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Social aspects--Europe.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.
- Slavery--Political aspects--Europe.
- Slavery--Political aspects--Caribbean Area.
- Distributive justice.
- Compensation (Law).
- Families.
- Slavery--Political aspects.
- Slavery--Social aspects.
- Renton, Alex, 1961---Family.
- Renton, Alex.
- Caribbean Area.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Canongate, 2021.
- ©2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. In the family papers
- TOBAGO
- 1773
- 1785
- 2. A prospect of acquiring a fortune
- Map: Eastern Caribbean, 1775
- 3. People as property
- 4. Many ways to die: pirates, famine and the flux
- 5. Tobago today
- JAMAICA
- 1769
- 1875
- 6. A fine property in Jamaica: Rozelle
- Map: Rozelle Estate, c. 1780
- 7. Enlightenment gentlemen and runaway slaves
- 8. `Goatish embraces' and the breeding of humans
- 9. The money and the pox
- 10. Slavery modernised
- 11. The end of the British trade
- 12. Decline, disgust and death
- 13. Cleansing the money
- 14. Emancipation at a price
- 15. Freedom's debt
- 16. Betrayal: absentee landlords and planter-magistrates
- 17. The Empire strikes back
- Map: South-east Jamaica, 1865
- 18. Jamaica today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781786898869
- 1786898861
- OCLC:
- 1225287985
- Publisher Number:
- 99987776859
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