Departmental Research seminars 2011/2012

Dr Nicholas Draper (UCL)
Compensation for slave-owners: individual, state and nation in British Emancipation

The paper will discuss the relevance or otherwise of the historic process of compensating slave-owners to current debates about reparations and restitution. Based on a major ESRC-funded project, it touches on numerous issues – not least of which is the role of the historian in public debate and public policy. This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/10/nicholas-draper-compensation-for-slave-owners-individual-state-and-nation-in-british-emancipation/