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

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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Основен автор: Drescher, Seymour.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Предмети:
Antislavery movements > Great Britain.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Slaves > Emancipation > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Social sciences and history > Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Slaves > Emancipation > Economic aspects.
Social sciences and history.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 18th century.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Mighty experiment.
Съдържание:
  • 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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