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From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, and Europe. S. D. Smith examines the formation of this British Atlantic World from the perspective of Yorkshire aristocratic families who invested in the West Indies. At the heart of the book lies a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles and the commercial and cultural network they created with their associates. The Lascelles exhibited high levels of business innovation and were accomplished risk-takers, overcoming daunting obstacles to make fortunes out of the New World. Dr Smith shows how the family raised themselves first to super-merchant status and then to aristocratic pre-eminence. He also explores the tragic consequences for enslaved Africans with chapters devoted to the slave populations and interracial relations. This widely researched book sheds new light on the networks and the culture of imperialism.
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Table Of Contents:
List of Figures viii
List of Maps ix
List of Tables x
Preface xiii
List of Abbreviations xvi
1 Introduction: Remembering and Forgetting 1(10)
2 Halls and Vassalls 11(32)
3 Rise of the Lascelles 43(11)
4 Lascelles and Maxwell 54(37)
5 The Gedney Clarkes 91(48)
6 Merchants and Planters 139(38)
7 A Labyrinth of Debt 177(49)
8 Managing a West India Interest 226(34)
9 The Enslaved Population 260(57)
10 Between Black and White 317(34)
11 Epilogue 351(8)
Archival Sources 359(8)
Index 367
List of Figures viii
List of Maps ix
List of Tables x
Preface xiii
List of Abbreviations xvi
1 Introduction: Remembering and Forgetting 1(10)
2 Halls and Vassalls 11(32)
3 Rise of the Lascelles 43(11)
4 Lascelles and Maxwell 54(37)
5 The Gedney Clarkes 91(48)
6 Merchants and Planters 139(38)
7 A Labyrinth of Debt 177(49)
8 Managing a West India Interest 226(34)
9 The Enslaved Population 260(57)
10 Between Black and White 317(34)
11 Epilogue 351(8)
Archival Sources 359(8)
Index 367
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