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Item Number: 127762
Title: Slavery and the British Country House
Author: Dresser, Madge ; Andrew Hann (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781848020641
Description: London: English Heritage, 2013. 26cm., hardcover, 208pp., 225 illus. Contents: 1. Slave ownership and the British country house: the records of the Slave Compensation Commission as evidence - Nicholas Draper. 2. Slavery and West Country houses - Madge Dresser. 3. Rural retreats: Liverpool slave traders and their country houses - Jane Longmore. 4. Lodges, garden houses and villas: the urban periphery in the early modern Atlantic world - Roger H Leech. 5. Slavery's heritage footprint: links between British country houses and St Vincent, 1814-34 - Simon D Smith. 6. An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall - Nuala Zahedieh. 7. Property, power and authority: the implicit and explicit slavery connections of Bolsover Castle and Brodsworth Hall in the 18th century - Sheryllynne Haggerty and Susanne Seymour. 8. Atlantic slavery and classical culture at Marble Hill and Northington Grange - Laurence Brown. 9. Slavery and the sublime: the Atlantic trade, landscape aesthetics and tourism - Victoria Perry. 10. West Indian echoes: Dodington House, the Codrington family and the Caribbean heritage - Natalie Zacek. 11. Contesting the political legacy of slavery in England's country houses: a case study of Kenwood House and Osborne House - Caroline Bressey. 12. Representing the East and West India links to the British country house: the London borough of Bexley and the wider heritage picture - Cliff Pereira. 13. Reinterpretation: the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative media - Rob Mitchell and Shawn Sobers.
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