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Between Blood and Gold: The Debates Over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas

Between Blood and Gold: The Debates Over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas

Hardcover

Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction, Book 10

French HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesBritish History

ISBN10: 1785333313
ISBN13: 9781785333316
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Dec 1 2016
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth century-except the victims were not slaves, but the slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark comparative study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain. It lays out in unprecedented detail the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play, establishing a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath of slavery in the Americas.

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