2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Abolition of Slavery and the Compensation for Slave Owners in British West Indies
| Project/Area Number |
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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| 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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| Keywords | イギリス史 / 西インド史 / 奴隷制廃止 / カリブ諸島 / 近代史 |
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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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| Free Research Field |
イギリス近代史
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