Between Blood and Gold : : The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas / / Frédérique Beauvois.
Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth ce...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European Expansion & Global Interaction ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- Introduction – COMPENSATION AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR ABOLITION -- Chapter 1 – COMPENSATION An Issue at the Heart of a Democratic Debate -- Chapter 2 – BETWEEN LEGALISM AND HUMANISM Compensation for Eminent Domain? -- Chapter 3 – COMPENSATION’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIMENSION Compensation as Aid -- Chapter 4 – COMPENSATION’S POLITICAL SIDE A Means of Ensuring Colonial Cooperation -- EPILOGUE The Many-Faceted Issue of Compensation -- APPENDIX Positions of Members of Parliament Concerning the Principal Abolition Topics -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index |
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| Summary: | Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth century—except the “victims” were not slaves, but the slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark comparative study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain. It lays out in unprecedented detail the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play, establishing a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath of slavery in the Americas. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781785333323 9783110998221 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781785333323?locatt=mode:legacy |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Frédérique Beauvois. |