Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s
This paper examines the claims of Eric Williams and the more recent Legacies of British Slave-Ownership projects regarding the influence of enslavement in the building of Britain and its empire through a multi-generational study of a leading British elite family, the Bentincks. Using the concept of...
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| author | Haggerty, Sheryllynne Seymour, Susanne |
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| description | This paper examines the claims of Eric Williams and the more recent Legacies of British Slave-Ownership projects regarding the influence of enslavement in the building of Britain and its empire through a multi-generational study of a leading British elite family, the Bentincks. Using the concept of imperial careering, it charts how four men from this family not typically identified as enslavers or abolitionists were entangled with enslavement in Britain’s Western and Eastern empires. It concludes that the influence of enslavement was extensive and mainly exploitative, but involved losses as well as gains for these elite protagonists. |
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| spelling | nottingham-491972020-05-04T19:29:39Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49197/ Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s Haggerty, Sheryllynne Seymour, Susanne This paper examines the claims of Eric Williams and the more recent Legacies of British Slave-Ownership projects regarding the influence of enslavement in the building of Britain and its empire through a multi-generational study of a leading British elite family, the Bentincks. Using the concept of imperial careering, it charts how four men from this family not typically identified as enslavers or abolitionists were entangled with enslavement in Britain’s Western and Eastern empires. It concludes that the influence of enslavement was extensive and mainly exploitative, but involved losses as well as gains for these elite protagonists. Taylor & Francis 2018-02-02 Article PeerReviewed Haggerty, Sheryllynne and Seymour, Susanne (2018) Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s. Slavery and Abolition . ISSN 1743-9523 Imperial Careering Slavery Family Eighteenth Century Empire http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AmFUIhKetXeKk9sSVwtz/full doi:10.1080/0144039X.2018.1429190 doi:10.1080/0144039X.2018.1429190 |
| spellingShingle | Imperial Careering Slavery Family Eighteenth Century Empire Haggerty, Sheryllynne Seymour, Susanne Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s |
| title | Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s |
| title_full | Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s |
| title_fullStr | Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s |
| title_full_unstemmed | Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s |
| title_short | Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s |
| title_sort | imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the bentinck family, 1710-1830s |
| topic | Imperial Careering Slavery Family Eighteenth Century Empire |
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