Blood Legacy : Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renton, Alex, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renton, Alex, 1961---Family.

Renton, Alex.

Slavery--Social aspects--Europe.

Slavery.

Slavery--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.

Slavery--Political aspects--Europe.

Slavery--Political aspects--Caribbean Area.

Distributive justice.

Compensation (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Blood Legacy

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2021.

Summary:

When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. Hometown: Toronto, ON.

Contents:

Intro

Notes

Introduction

Family Tree

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

Appendix: What happened Next? and What to do?

Acknowledgements

Select Bibliography

Image Credits

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781786898876

178689887X

OCLC:

1247926337