{"product_id":"slave-empire-how-slavery-built-modern-britain-hardcover","title":"Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePadraic X. Scanlan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFara Dabhoiwala, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMihir Bose, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eSlave Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A sweeping and devastating history of how slavery made modern Britain, and destroyed so much else . . . a shattering rebuke to the amnesia and myopia which still structure British history'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Guyatt, author of \u003ci\u003eBind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Scanlan shows that the liberal empire of the nineteenth century was the outcome of the long encounter of antislavery and economic expansion founded on enslaved or unfree labour. Antislavery was itself the excuse for empire'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Harvard University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fresh and fascinating, a stunning narrative that shows how an empire built on slavery became an empire sustained and expanded by antislavery. . . deftly combines rich storytelling with vivid details and deep scholarship'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBronwen Everill, author of \u003ci\u003eNot Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lively and informative . . . there is a clear, almost textbook-like, account of the sugar plantation system . . . particularly good on the ill-fated apprenticeship scheme that was linked to abolition after 1834'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKrishan Kumar, University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpires: A Historical and Political Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This accessible synthesis of recent scholarship comes at the right time to help shape current debates about Britain and slavery'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Draper, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful, often devastating, always compelling'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll About History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlave Empire\u003c\/i\u003e puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, the chapters show how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, \u003ci\u003eSlave Empire \u003c\/i\u003eshows that British freedom and British slavery were made together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the nineteenth century, Britain abolished its slave trade, and then slavery in its colonial empire. Because Britain was the first European power to abolish slavery, many Victorian Britons believed theirs was a liberal empire, promoting universal freedom and civilisation. And yet, the shape of British liberty itself was shaped by the labour of enslaved African workers. There was no bright line between British imperial exploitation and the 'civilisation' that the empire promised to its subjects. Nineteenth-century liberals were blind to the ways more than two centuries of colonial slavery twisted the roots of 'British liberty'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFreedom - free elections, free labour, free trade - were watchwords in the Victorian era, but the empire was still sustained by the labour of enslaved people, in the United States, Cuba and elsewhere. Modern Britain has inherited the legacies and contradictions of a liberal empire built on slavery. Modern capitalism and liberalism emphasise 'freedom' - for individuals and for markets - but are built on human bondage.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Padraic X. Scanlan earned a BA (Hons) in History from McGill University in 2008, and a PhD in History from Princeton University in 2013. He is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora \u0026amp; Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto and a Research Associate at the Joint Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has also held appointments at the London School of Economics and Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767783489824,"sku":"9781472142351","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3c78587d7abdab583b1fd9266e1307fb.webp?v=1780317240","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/slave-empire-how-slavery-built-modern-britain-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}