Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic. The world of the Lascelles, 1648-1834

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Scholarly work dealing with the sugar plantation industry, largely at Barbados, and the activities of the participating families who sought advancement and prestige as gentry members. Centres on the experience and activities - slave owning, merchanting, plantation owning and financing - of the Lascelles family and their accumulation of economic power and social prestige as Yorkshire landowners via their extensive West Indies interests. Deals also with the slave population and their experience. Chapters include: 'Halls and vassalls'; 'Rise of the Lascelles'; 'Lascelles and Maxwell'; 'The Gedney Clarkes'; 'Merchants and planters'; 'A labyrinth of debt'; 'Managing a West Indian estate'; 'The enslaved population'; 'Between black and white'. Family trees of the Lascelles family, the Gedney family