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Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery / Alex Renton.
By: Renton, Alex [author.]
.Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2021Description: xi, 388 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786898869.Note: Gift: Lord Russell of Liverpool.Subject(s): Fergusson of Kilkerran family | Hunter Blair family | Rozelle plantation (Jamaica) | Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History | Enslaved persons -- Great Britain -- Genealogy | Piracy -- History -- United States | Jamaica -- HistoryDDC classification: 306.362
Contents:
In the family papers -- I. Tobago, 1772-1785 -- A prospect of acquiring a fortune -- People as property -- Many ways to die : pirates, famine, and the flux -- Tobago today -- II. Jamaica, 1769-1875 -- A fine property in Jamaica : Rozelle -- Enlightenment gentlemen and runaway slaves -- 'Goatish embraces' and the breeding of humans -- The money and the pox -- Slavery modernised -- The end of the British trade -- Decline, disgust and death -- Cleansing the money -- Emancipation at a price -- Freedom's debt -- Betrayal : absentee landlords and planter-magistrates -- The Empire strikes back -- Jamaica today -- Appendix : what happened next? And what to do?
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 306.362 REN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Gift: Lord Russell of Liverpool. | 019085 |
In the family papers -- I. Tobago, 1772-1785 -- A prospect of acquiring a fortune -- People as property -- Many ways to die : pirates, famine, and the flux -- Tobago today -- II. Jamaica, 1769-1875 -- A fine property in Jamaica : Rozelle -- Enlightenment gentlemen and runaway slaves -- 'Goatish embraces' and the breeding of humans -- The money and the pox -- Slavery modernised -- The end of the British trade -- Decline, disgust and death -- Cleansing the money -- Emancipation at a price -- Freedom's debt -- Betrayal : absentee landlords and planter-magistrates -- The Empire strikes back -- Jamaica today -- Appendix : what happened next? And what to do?
Gift: Lord Russell of Liverpool.