Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of tables vii
4. A note on the front cover viii
5. Notes on contributors ix
6. Preface xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I Formations of capital: beyond ‘merchants and planters’
9. 1 The scope of accumulation and the reach of moral perception 19
10. 2 Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth 36
11. 3 Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation 60
12. Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation
13. 4 From slavery to indenture 77
14. 5 Re-examining the labour matrix in the British Caribbean 1750 to 1850 98
15. 6 After emancipation 113
16. Part III The imperial state
17. 7 Imperial complicity 131
18. 8 Concepts of liberty 149
19. Part IV Public histories, family histories
20. 9 Family history 175
21. 10 Writing Sugar in the Blood 184
22. 11 Legacy and lineage 193
23. Part V Reparations, restitution and the historian
24. 12 The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission 207
25. 13 Jamaica and the debate over reparation for slavery 223
26. Index 251