Leroy Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6809420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leroy Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leroy |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The self-purchase of “freedom”, a reparative history of the abolition of Caribbean slavery, 1832–1833
The discovery that loans for the payment of slave abolition compensation had not been repaid by British taxpayers until 2015 took many by surprise. But it is the financial contribution of British Afro-Caribbeans towards the emancipation of their own ancestors that is most significant, calling for a re-examination of abolition historiography. By using Jeremy Bentham and Edward Gibbon Wakefield as analytical constructs, each July 1832 to February 1…
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The self-purchase of “freedom”, a reparative history of the abolition of Caribbean slavery, 1832–1833
The discovery that loans for the payment of slave abolition compensation had not been repaid by British taxpayers until 2015 took many by surprise. But it is the financial contribution of British Afro-Caribbeans towards the emancipation of their own ancestors that is most significant, calling for a re-examination of abolition historiography. By using Jeremy Bentham and Edward Gibbon Wakefield as analytical constructs, each July 1832 to February 1…
Ancient history (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Cuban History and Society (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work)