S. Daniel Smith

Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic

The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the British Atlantic World through a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9780521863384
• ISBN-10: 0521863384
• Artikelnr.: 22749174

Autorenporträt

S. D, Smith is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York. He has previously edited An Exact and Industrious Tradesman: the Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - remembering and forgetting
2. Halls and Vassalls
3. Rise of the Lascelles
4. Lascelles and Maxwell
5. The Gedney Clarkes
6. Merchants and planters
7. A labyrinth of debt
8. Managing a West India interest
9. The enslaved population
10. Between black and white
11. Epilogue.