ebooks Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindus: Being an Epitome of Some of the Most Remarkable and Leading Tenets in the Faith of That People; Illu by Edward Sellon in History

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This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery; and tracing their trajectories in British life; the volume explores the commercial; political; cultural; social; intellectual; physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain; and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history; but also of the histories of the Atlantic world; of the Caribbean and of slavery; as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.