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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808142203321

Autore

Drescher Seymour

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

�2002

ISBN

0-19-771464-1

0-19-029196-6

1-280-52775-7

0-19-802536-X

0-19-518017-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

306.3620941

326/.0942

331.11720941

Soggetti

Antislavery movements - Great Britain

Slavery - Economic aspects - Great Britain

Slaves - Emancipation - Economic aspects - Great Britain

Social sciences and history - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This study analyses Great Britain's withdrawal from the transatlantic



slave system. It argues that it was a rational social experiment and that emancipation was designed to minimise agitation on both sides of the Atlantic.