Author : Katie Donington
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526129507
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Book Synopsis The bonds of family by : Katie Donington
Download or read book The bonds of family written by Katie Donington and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain’s Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts’s trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery.