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By Kathleen Mary Butler

The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 supplied a furnish of u20 million to compensate the proprietors of West Indian slaves for the lack of their human 'property.' during this first comparative research of the effect of the award at the colonies, Mary Butler specializes in Jamaica and Barbados, of Britain's ultimate sugar islands. The Economics of Emancipation examines the influence of compensated emancipation on colonial credits, landownership, plantation land values, and the wider spheres of overseas alternate and finance. Butler additionally brings the position and standing of ladies as collectors and plantation vendors into concentration for the 1st time. via her research of hardly ever used chancery courtroom documents, legal professionals' letters, and repayment returns, Butler underscores the fragility of the colonial economies of Jamaica and Barbados, illustrates the altering courting among planters and retailers, and provides new insights into the social and political historical past of the West Indies and Britain.

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