Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, from the Calabar Massacre to BLM, 1767–2022.

The article discusses the slave-trading British family, The Laces, with an emphasis on their social and economic history to investigate the concept of slavery reparations. Topics include the family’s history with slavery starting with the patriarch of the family, Ambrose Lace, and his role as a slav...

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Publicado en:American Historical Review Vol. 128; no. 1; pp. 1 - 31
Autor principal: Sweet, James H.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Mar2023
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Sumario:The article discusses the slave-trading British family, The Laces, with an emphasis on their social and economic history to investigate the concept of slavery reparations. Topics include the family’s history with slavery starting with the patriarch of the family, Ambrose Lace, and his role as a slave ship captain in the 1767 massacre in Calabar, the family law firm in the nineteenth century with slave traders as clients, and Ambrose’s great-grandson’s attempts to erase slavery from their family history. [EPC]