The mighty experiment : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation /

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By the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Great Britain had amassed Europe's largest imperial stake in the transatlantic slave system. During the next three generations the British dismantled that stake in a graduated series of withdrawals. This process has been portrayed, on the one hand...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Drescher, Seymour
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Antislavery movements > Great Britain.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Social sciences and history > Great Britain.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Aspect économique > Grande-Bretagne.
Sciences sociales et histoire > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Antislavery movements
Slavery > Economic aspects
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Economic aspects
Social sciences and history
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Introduction; 1. Modern Slavery and Modern Freedom; 2. The Free Labor Ideology: Adam Smith; 3. From Production to Reproduction: The Population Principle; 4. Adam Smith's Epigone and the Retreat from the Free Labor Ideology; 5. Heredity, Environment, and Change; 6. Sierra Leone and Haiti: Emancipation as an Experimental Science; 7. Experimental Alternatives to Slavery, 1791-1833; 8. The Mighty Experiment; 9. Expanding the Experiment; 10. The Experiment Eroded; 11. The Experiment in Crisis: Sugar, Slaves, and Cotton; 12. An Experiment Abandoned; 13. Some Lessons; Notes.
  • Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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