Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138699756 ISBN 13: 9781138699755

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the ‘fall of the planter class’, offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

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About the Author

Christer Petley is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his publications are Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (2009) and articles in Atlantic Studies, Slavery & Abolition and The Historical Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138699756
• ISBN 13: 9781138699755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138
• Editor: Petley Christer