Abstract

Introduction - Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper and Keith McClelland Part I: Formations of capital: beyond 'merchants and planters' 1. The scope of accumulation and the reach of moral perception: slavery, market revolution and Atlantic capitalism - Robin Blackburn 2. Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth: a contribution to the debate - Pat Hudson 3. Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation - Chris Evans Part II: From slavery to indenture 4. From slavery to indenture: scripts for slavery's endings - Anita Rupprecht 5. Re-examining the labour matrix in the British Caribbean, 1750-1850 - Heather Cateau 6. After emancipation: empires and imperial formations - Clare Anderson Part III: The imperial state 7. Imperial complicity: indigenous dispossession in British history and history writing - Zoe Laidlaw 8. Concepts of liberty: freedom, laissez faire and the state after Britain's abolition of slavery - Richard Huzzey Part IV: Public histories, family histories 9. Family history: history's poor relation? - Alison Light 10. Writing Sugar in the Blood - Andrea Stuart 11. Legacy and lineage: family histories in the Caribbean - Mary Chamberlain Part V: Reparations, restitution and the historian 12. The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: 'eyewash', 'storm in a teacup' or promise of a new future for Mauritians? - Vijaya Teelock 13. Jamaica and the debate over reparation for slavery: an overview - Verene A. Shepherd Index

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