The Inner Life of EmpiresThey were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstonesfour sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining