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The structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833

21 November 2018, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm

Legacies of British Slave-ownership

Mapping the ownership of estates and of the enslaved people attached to them from the expansion of the British slave-empire in 1763 to Emancipation in the 1830s

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Dr Kate Quinn – UCL Institute of the Americas
020 7679 2000

Location

Lecture Room 103
UCL Institute of the Americas
51 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PN
United Kingdom

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This paper presents some of the new work underway in the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, discussing preliminary findings from the mapping of ownership of estates and of the enslaved people attached to them for the period between the expansion of the British slave-empire in 1763 and Emancipation in the 1830s, and setting out some potential applications of the new material for historians of both Britain and the Caribbean in this period.

While attendance at this event is free, places are limited and booking is required to avoid disappointment.

About the Speaker

Dr Nick Draper

Director at UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership

Dr Nick Draper is the Director of the new UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Between 2013 and 2015, he was co-director of the Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 project at UCL, and was a founder-member of its precursor, the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, which ran at UCL from 2009-2012. His book Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (with C. Hall, K. McClelland, K. Donington and R. Lang) was published last year by Cambridge University Press. His The Price of Emancipation: slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery (CUP, 2010) was awarded the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize and shortlisted for the Frederick Douglass prize.  He is a member of the Finance Committee, and a Fellow, of the Royal Historical Society. Prior to his current research, he worked in the City of London for 25 years.