The Legacies of the British Slave Trade: The Structures and Significance of British Investment in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, c. 1550-1807

英国奴隶贸易的遗产：英国跨大西洋奴隶贸易投资的结构和意义，c。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V004417/1
负责人：
William Pettigrew
金额：
$ 99.69万
依托单位：
Lancaster University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV004417%2F1
关键词：
Legacies British Slave Trade Structures

项目摘要

What was the structure of British investment in the slave trade? What was the significance of the slave trade to Britain's economic, political, and cultural development? This project seeks to answer these two questions by collating and improving existing data and completing new research to create a comprehensive prosopography of the 6,524 British investors in the slave trade, c.1550-1807. The project will use this data set to engage with seven overlapping research contexts. First, it traces capital outflows from the trade into other sectors of the British economy to assess the trade's significance to British economic development. Second, the project offers the first comprehensive assessment of capital inputs into the slave trade to understand the changing structures of investment into the trade, and to situate the slave trade within the context of other commercial enterprises. Third, the project will explore the role of slave trade investment in the shaping of national and local politics and culture, including the liberalization of the trade in the C17 and abolition in the C19. Fourth, the project will deepen understanding of the role of race and empire in the formulation of British identity by examining the significance of commodification to the racialized depiction of enslaved Africans that emerged in Britain during the C17 and C18. Fifth, the project systematically explores the role of women not only as investors, but also as transmitters of slaving wealth and as bonds in the social and familial networks constructed around the slave trade to offer new perspectives on the importance of gender to early modern commercial enterprises. Sixth, the project's prosopography and network analysis will allow historians of the slave trade to influence a wider interdisciplinary community interested in how individual actors make decisions based on their social, cultural, and economic relationships. Seventh, this project's data set provides historians with a unique opportunity to understand the processes that helped integrate Britain's national market in the C17 and C18. Engaging with these seven research strands, this project seeks to engage a range of scholars working across disciplines. Building on the success of two precursor projects on the Legacies of British Slavery [RES-062-23-1764; ES/J017736/1], this project will therefore offer a new emphasis on the slave trade's commercial context and of the networks that structured investment within the slave trade, while highlighting the degree to which the business was embedded within the British economy. The project team will publicize these findings through ten world-leading research articles that will reshape the salience of the slave trade in the fields of economic, political, and cultural history. The project will simultaneously nurture the academic careers of three PDRAs through an innovative, nationwide team structure. It will form a stakeholder panel and engage the inhabitants of former slave trading ports in the implementation of the project through a series of workshops, and establish local and national networks that will survive the project-life. At the project's conclusion, the project will make the data set freely available, creating an important new resource for exploring the histories of colonial slavery, the commercial and industrial revolutions, the C18 urban renaissance, African slavery's role in the development of British institutions and culture, and local and regional pasts. The project will thus inscribe the history of the transatlantic slave trade fully into the story of British social and economy development, helping British society confront, disclose, and memorialize the slave trade.

英国对奴隶贸易的投资的结构是什么？奴隶贸易对英国的经济，政治和文化发展的意义是什么？该项目旨在通过整理和改进现有数据并完成新的研究来回答这两个问题，以创建6,524名英国在奴隶贸易中的投资者的综合化，C.1550-1807。该项目将使用此数据集与七个重叠的研究环境互动。首先，它追溯到资本从贸易流出到英国经济的其他部门，以评估贸易对英国经济发展的重要性。其次，该项目对奴隶贸易的资本投入进行了首次全面评估，以了解贸易投资的变化结构，并将奴隶贸易位于其他商业企业的背景下。第三，该项目将探讨奴隶贸易投资在塑造国家和地方政治和文化中的作用，包括C17中贸易的自由化以及C19中的废除。第四，该项目将通过研究商品化对在C17和C18期间在英国出现的被奴役的非洲人的种族化描述的重要性，从而加深对种族和帝国在英国身份制定中的作用的理解。第五，该项目系统地探讨了女性的作用，不仅是投资者，而且还探讨了奴隶财富的发射机，并作为围绕奴隶贸易建立的社会和家族网络中的纽带，以提供有关性别对早期现代商业企业的重要性的新观点。。第六名，该项目的研究和网络分析将使奴隶贸易的历史学家能够影响一个对个人演员如何根据其社会，文化和经济关系做出决定的更广泛的跨学科社区。第七个项目的数据集为历史学家提供了一个独特的机会，可以了解将英国国家市场与C17和C18相结合的过程。该项目与这七个研究方面接触，旨在参与一系列跨学科工作的学者。建立在英国奴隶制遗产方面的两个先驱项目的成功基础上[RES-062-23-1764; ES/J017736/1]，因此，该项目将对奴隶贸易的商业环境和在奴隶贸易中结构投资的网络提供新的重视，同时强调了企业在英国经济中嵌入的程度。项目团队将通过十种世界领先的研究文章来宣传这些发现，这些研究将重塑经济，政治和文化历史领域的奴隶贸易的显着性。该项目将通过创新的全国团队结构同时培养三个PDRA的学术职业。它将组成一个利益相关者小组，并通过一系列研讨会与以前的奴隶贸易港口的居民一起实施项目，并建立将在项目生活中幸存下来的本地和国家网络。在该项目的结论中，该项目将免费提供数据集，为探索殖民奴隶制，商业和工业革命，C18城市文艺复兴时期，非洲奴隶制在英国机构和文化发展中的作用，创造重要的新资源。以及本地和地区的过去。因此，该项目将将跨大西洋奴隶贸易的历史铭刻在英国社会和经济发展的故事中，帮助英国社会面对，披露和纪念奴隶贸易。