Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s

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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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Main Authors:	Haggerty, Sheryllynne, Seymour, Susanne
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2018
Subjects:	Imperial Careering Slavery Family Eighteenth Century Empire
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49197/

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