Blood legacy /
by Renton, Alex.
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BookPublisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2022Description: xi, 388 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781786898890 (pbk.) :; 1786898896 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 306.362 RENSubject(s): Renton, Alex, 1961- -- Family | Slavery -- Social aspects -- Europe | Slavery -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area | Slavery -- Political aspects -- Europe | Slavery -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area | Distributive justice | Compensation (Law) | Society | Society | Social & cultural history | Slavery & abolition of slavery | Society & culture: general | Social discrimination & equal treatmentSummary: Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The ancestors of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 306.362 REN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003106029X |
Originally published: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The ancestors of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today.
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