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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.

Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply? (2016)
Book Chapter
Seymour, S., & Haggerty, S. (2016). Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply?. In D. Knight (Ed.), The Derwent Valley: the valley that changed the world: Derwent Valley Mills world heritage site research framework, 87. Derwent Valley Mills Partnership