Blood, Money and Endless Paper

Slavery and Capital in British Imperial History

Bibliographic Data

ID9345697
AuthorsPadraic X Scanlan (0000-0001-8552-0803, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume14
Issue5
Pages218-230
Publication date2016-04-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hic3.12310
OpenAlexW2288787908
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited69

The history of slavery in Britain and the British Empire has placed the legislative milestones of anti‐slavery – the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the abolition of slavery in 1833 – at the centre of historical inquiry. This essay considers why the passing of anti‐slavery laws, rather than the implementation of anti‐slavery reforms, has been so pivotal in the historiography. It asks what the history of slavery in Britain and the British Empire would look like if turned away from the bright line of emancipation, and toward the continuities between slavery and freedom. It places British approaches to the history of slavery into a wider historiographical context and considers how renewed emphasis on the physical experience and everyday routines of slavery and anti‐slavery, in tandem with a rigorous rethinking of the archives, might shape the future of the field

Ancient history · Archaeology · British Empire · Capital (architecture · Context (archaeology · Emancipation · Empire · Historiography · Imperial unit system · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law

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