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Emancipation and the remaking of
the British imperial world

UCL/Neale Series on British History

editors

Catherine Hall

Julian Hoppit

The prestigious Neale lecture in British history was instituted at UCL in 1970, in memory of Sir John Neale, the eminent historian of Elizabethan England. In recent years the lecture has often been discussed with related papers at a major colloquium. The volumes in this series print the lecture and papers from such occasions, making a significant contribution to major themes in British history.

Already published

Catherine Hall and Keith McClelland (eds) Race, nation and empire: Making
histories, 1750 to the present

Julian Hoppit (ed.) Parliaments, nations and identities in Britain and Ireland,
16601850

Sophie Page (ed.) The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain

Nicholas Tyacke (ed.) The English Revolution c. 15901720: Politics, religions
and communities

Emancipation and the remaking of
the British imperial world

edited by

CATHERINE HALL, NICHOLAS DRAPER
AND KEITH MCCLELLAND

Manchester
University Press

Manchester and New York

distributed in the United States exclusively
by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Copyright Manchester University Press 2014

While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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ISBN 978 0 7190 9183 4

First published 2014

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Tables

Hiring rates, 1750 to 1810

Hiring rates, 1836

Transatlantic departures by African region to the Americas, 15191867

Percentage distributions of Africans in the transatlantic trade, 17021807

Names of ships, embarkation and disembarkation, and mortality rates above 50%

Population of Jamaica by race, selected years 16601805

Jamaicas enslaved imports and changes in population, selected years 17031807

Names of anti-slavery activists who participated in the 183132 war and punishments received

A note on the front cover

The cover image for the book was originally published in 1842 in the Illustrated London News under the title Hill Coolies Landing At The Mauritius. The image purported to represent the arrival of indentured East Indian labourers into the colony. The text accompanying the image described the scene as another of those forms of human grievance approximate to the crimes that are perpetrated by the slave-trade itself. Since its publication under this title the image has been used both commercially and within museums to represent indentured labour. However, the image has more recently been identified as having been adapted from an earlier, 1835, watercolour by the artist Johann Moritz Rugendas entitled Landing Slaves at a Brazilian Port, 1830s or Debarquement. The slippage between what the image actually depicted and the meaning which was later assigned to it speaks to the commonality of experience between different forms of unfree labour, raising difficult questions about the nature of freedom in the post-emancipation period.

Notes on contributors

The editors

Catherine Hall (Principal Investigator), Nicholas Draper (Research Associate) and Keith McClelland (Research Associate) were all part of the ESRC-funded project Legacies of British Slave Ownership (LBS) in the Department of History, University College London. They are now working on the ESRC/AHRC-funded project at University College London (UCL) The Structure and Significance of British Caribbean Slave-ownership 17631833.

Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at UCL and has been a major figure in the new imperial history. She is the author of many works, including Civilising Subjects. Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 18301867 (2002) and Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (2012).

Nicholas Draper worked in the City for 25 years before joining UCL as a doctoral student, teaching fellow and then LBS Research Associate. His book The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (2009), which won the 2009 Royal Historical Societys Whitfield Prize, is the foundational analysis which underpinned the LBS project.

Keith McClelland has researched and published particularly on the history of gender, work and politics in 19th-century Britain. He co-edited, with Catherine Hall, Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories 1750 to the Present (2010) and co-wrote, with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall, Defining the Victorian Nation (2000).

Contributors

Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. Her research centres on the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and she is especially interested in the history of confinement in prisons, penal colonies, plantations and migrant ships, and also in various forms of forced labour. She is the author of, most recently, Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 17901920 (2012) and numerous articles and book chapters. She is currently the editor of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

Robin Blackburn is Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Essex and was Visiting Distinguished Professor in Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research, New York, 200110. He is the author of American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2012); The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern (1997); and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 17761848 (1988).

Heather Cateau is head of the History Department at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. She specialises in the study of plantation systems and in comparative systems of enslavement. Her books include Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later (2000) with Selwyn Carrington, and Beyond Tradition: Reinterpreting the Caribbean Historical Experience (2006) with Rita Pemberton. She is currently working on New Perspectives on Management of Plantations in the British Caribbean.

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