Calculating a life: classification, valuation and compensation in the British abolition of slavery

Jeacle, Ingrid

doi:10.1108/aaaj-01-2021-5087

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“…The essence of the problem considered by I. Jeacle (2023) concerns the economic aspects of compensating slave owners after the abolition of slavery in the 1830s. The researcher noted that at that time the importance of understanding the practice of slavery and evaluating further dynamic changes in the spheres of action was established.…”

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Transformation of views on slavery in the Atlantic region: Aspects of economy, culture, and society

Kalashnyk

2024

European Chronicle

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The relevance of the study is conditioned by the connection of the topic of slavery in the modern world with social rules, because it helps to understand the challenges and problems associated with racism, inequality, and social justice. In this regard, the purpose of the study was to explore the development of economic, cultural, and social life in the Atlantic region during the spread and after the abolition of slavery. The leading methods of investigating this problem are cultural and historical analysis, comparison, classification, synthesis, historical approach, deduction, and generalisation of results. The paper shows the content and functions of slavery; analyses the historical trends in the development of the slave trade, identifies its main factors; demonstrates the findings of modern historians and economists who considered aspects of changing views on slavery in different periods, dominant motives, features, nature and dynamics of the development of discriminatory attitudes in the Atlantic region; describes how slavery took root in America at the earliest stages of the European conquest; traces its characteristics, the origin of various systems, working conditions and exploitation; reveals changes in views on slavery as a negative way of building society; shows the interweaving of Atlantic slavery, the production of knowledge and colonisation, which influenced the development of the modern world; revealed a fair future through alternative anthropology solving complex issues and paying reparations; analysed in detail the development and changes in the economy, trade, social relations, and culture during the development of the slave trade; diagnosed that the cessation and eradication of slavery significantly affected the progress in the economic and cultural life of the United States and completed the period of expansion. The materials of the study are of scientific value for historians, economists, culturologists, and linguists who will be able to deepen research on the economic and cultural consequences of slavery, its impact on economic development, trade, literature, and art

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Transformation of views on slavery in the Atlantic region: Aspects of economy, culture, and society

Kalashnyk

2024

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Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade

Meadowcroft

2024

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Was the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade a triumph of altruism over pecuniary self-interest? Analysis of qualitative data reveals the importance of self-interested motives underlying this ostensibly other-regarding reform. The abolitionists worked to alleviate the suffering of enslaved Africans, but their campaign faced a collective action problem that was solved by the supply of the private benefits of status, esteem, and possible religious salvation to the leading figures. Abolition was also consistent with the desire of many ordinary Britons to eradicate the remnants of feudal society and move to a more liberal order. The payment of compensation to slaveowners on abolition also made reform consistent with their interests, and the interests of the individuals and financial institutions that processed and invested the payments. This analysis coheres with aspects of Eric Williams’ thesis that abolition took place because it benefited Britain’s ruling elite, although more Britons gained from abolition than Williams supposed. It is concluded that constitutional reform to remove oppressive and exploitative institutions does not follow from a sudden outpouring of societal altruism but requires the supply of private benefits to constitutional entrepreneurs able to make change consistent with the interests of the wider population and powerful groups who would otherwise lose from liberalization.

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Persson

2024

Accounting History Review

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Calculating a life: classification, valuation and compensation in the British abolition of slavery

Cited by 4 publications

References 79 publications

Transformation of views on slavery in the Atlantic region: Aspects of economy, culture, and society

Transformation of views on slavery in the Atlantic region: Aspects of economy, culture, and society

Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade

Accounting history publications 2023

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