Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s
(2018)
Journal Article
Haggerty, S., & Seymour, S. (2018). Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s. Slavery and Abolition, 39(4), 642-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2018.1429190
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... Read More about Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s.