9 February 2023
CAS Research Network Co-Director, Ingrid Jeacle has published an article examining the practices of the Slave Compensation Commission, the body established for the purposes of compensating slave owners on the abolishment of slavery across the British colonies in 1833. In studying the apparatus used by the Slave Compensation Commission to place a value on the life of a slave, this research contributes to our understanding of role of calculative technologies in the practices of valuing human life.