Nick Draper

Dr Nick Draper is a Research Associate on the project. 

Prior to joining UCL as a doctoral candidate and then a Teaching Fellow, he worked in the City for 25 years.  His foundational analysis of the Slave Compensation records was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 as The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery.

The book was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize 2009. The prize is for a first solely written book on a subject within a field of British history published in the UK. You can read the judges' citation here.

In 2008-9, Nick acted as historical consultant to the Slavers of Harley Street exhibit at the Museum in Docklands in 2008-9.

His other publications include:

'The City of London and slavery: evidence from the first dock companies 1795-1800', Economic History Review, 61 (2) (May 2008) pp. 432-66, jointly awarded the 2009 T. S. Ashton Prize by the Economic History Society.

'"Possessing slaves": ownership, compensation and metropolitan society in Britain at the time of Emancipation 1834-40', History Workshop Journal , 64 (Autumn 2007), pp. 74-102.

'Slave-owners compensation to Sketches of Character subscribers' in Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (eds.) Art and Emancipation in Jamaica. Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale University Press, 2007),  pp. 542-55.