The Bonds of Family - (Studies in Imperialism) by Katie Donington (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain's history and legacies of slavery.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Moving between Britain and Jamaica <i>The bonds of family</i> reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain's Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts's trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain's history and legacies of slavery.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation created and sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established and expanded Britain's Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how the system of slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain during the period leading up to, during and after abolition. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts's trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain's multifaceted engagement with the business of slavery. The book contributes to a growing scholarship on imperial families and in particular those who operated within the world of the transatlantic planter-merchant elite. It integrates an analysis of the family as political and economic actors with an examination of their activities within the domestic and cultural sphere to provide an overview of the different ways in which slavery shaped society both in the colony and the metropole. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in slavery studies, British imperialism, local and family history, cultural history, museum studies, gender history, and histories of business and commerce in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Katie Donington's fascinating, formidably researched and very important investigation of the manifold ways in which the Hibbert family established its wealth through slave trading and slavery and its outsized role in important aspects of British history, including philanthropy and proslavery, is a book for our times. It deserves a wide readership.' <i>Family and Community History</i> '<i>The Bonds of Family</i> is an engaging, methodically-presented study that brings a unique perspective on the British Atlantic and promises to contribute significantly to studies of Caribbean and British history.' <i>New West Indian Guide</i> 'Through its focus on a single family, <i>The bonds of family</i> thus offers a refreshingly human view of how Britain's slave economy was made, operated, justified and sustained by its perpetrators. Atlantic slavery, Donington shows, was created not by abstract market forces, but through the actions of individuals such as the Hibberts: ambitious people who elevated themselves through the ruthless exploitation of enslaved people.' <i>Continuity and Change </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Katie Donington is Lecturer in History at London South Bank University
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