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Autore |
Williams Eric <1911-1981, > |
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The economic aspect of the abolition of the West Indian slave trade and slavery / / Eric Williams ; edited by Dale W. Tomich ; with an introduction by William Darity Jr |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Industries - Great Britain - History |
Slave trade - Great Britain |
Great Britain Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Contents; Introduction; P A R T I. THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE; Ch01. The Impolicy of the Slave System; Ch02. The Superiority of the French West Indies; Ch03. East India Sugar; Ch04. The Attempt to Secure an International Abolition; Ch05. The West Indian Expeditions; Ch06. The Significance of the West Indian Expeditions; Ch07. The Abolition of the Slave Trade; P A R T I I. THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; Ch08. The Abolitionists and Emancipation; Ch09. The Foreign Slave Trade; Ch10. East India Sugar; Ch11. The Distressed Areas |
Ch12. The Industrialists and EmancipationEpilogue; Appendix One: The "Influential Men"; Appendix Two: Ramsay as an Authority; Appendix Three: Select Documents Illustratingthe Inter-Colonial Slave Trade; Bibliography; Index; About the authors |
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Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in the influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944 and based on his previously |
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