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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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Published in:American Historical Review Vol. 128; no. 1; pp. 1 - 31
Main Author: Sweet, James H.
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Mar2023
Subjects:
Slaveholders
Slave trade
Slavery
British history
Slavery reparations
Black Lives Matter movement
Massacres
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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]