The Abolition of Slavery and the Compensation for Slave Owners in British West Indies
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26370864
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
山口 美知代 京都府立大学, 文学部, 准教授 (50259420)
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| Research Collaborator |
Draper Nicholas ロンドン大学, 歴史学部, 教授
TAKESHITA Yukio 畿央大学, 教育学部, 准教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | イギリス史 / 西インド史 / 奴隷制廃止 / カリブ諸島 / 近代史 / イギリス近代史 / 西インド / アンティグア / 砂糖生産 / 砂糖貿易 / イギリス議会史 / イギリス領西インド / 家族史 / 家系史 / 国際情報交換(イギリス） |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The sugar plantation economy thrived with the slavery of Africans in the West Indies. The slavery abolished in 1833. The abolition of the slavery was proceeded with the compensation to slave owners by the national budget. The fact is not known in Japan. In this project, the researcher demonstrates that the depression of British West Indies was the main reason of the adoption of the compensation. Not only bankers and merchants but also ordinary people invested their property to the West Indies. British government needed to save such investors in Great Britain as well as the slave owners. West India Interests wanted to reduct sugar duties but sugar duties were too important revenue. The British government prefered the compensation to reducting sugar duties. The researcher also shows that some West India merchants who got the compensation money reinvested it to the sugar production. Not a large part but some of the compensation money helped restruct the sugar economy after the abolition.
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Research Products
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