Bibliograph

Blood legacy, reckoning with a family's story of slavery, Alex Renton

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Blood legacy, reckoning with a family's story of slavery, Alex Renton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-341) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blood legacy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1242856633

Responsibility statement

Alex Renton

Sub title

reckoning with a family's story of slavery

Summary

When British Caribbean 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 descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. Hometown: Toronto, ON

Table Of Contents

Tobago -- 1773-1785 -- Jamaica -- 1769-1875

Target audience

adult

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