Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery
Renton, Alex, 1961-2021
Book
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When 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 ancestors of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today.
Main title:
Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery / Alex Renton.
Author:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2021.
Collation:
xi, 388 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781786898869 (hbk)1786898861 (hbk)9781786898876 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
306.362 REN306.362
LC class:
HT871
Language:
English
Subject:
Renton, Alex, 1961- -- FamilySlavery -- Social aspects -- EuropeSlavery -- Social aspects -- Caribbean AreaSlavery -- Political aspects -- EuropeSlavery -- Political aspects -- Caribbean AreaDistributive justiceCompensation (Law)SocietySocietySocial & cultural historySlavery & abolition of slaverySociety & culture: generalSocial discrimination & equal treatment
BRN:
374098