03328nam 2200817uu 450 991080814220332120230323234719.00-19-771464-10-19-029196-61-280-52775-70-19-802536-X0-19-518017-810.1093/oso/9780195093469.001.0001(CKB)1000000000442979(EBL)273047(OCoLC)476014030(SSID)ssj0000202807(PQKBManifestationID)11201308(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000202807(PQKBWorkID)10257056(PQKB)10007194(Au-PeEL)EBL273047(CaPaEBR)ebr10269160(CaONFJC)MIL52775(OCoLC)252594750(Au-PeEL)EBL2012804(MiAaPQ)EBC273047(OCoLC)1406781989(StDuBDS)9780197714645(EXLCZ)99100000000044297920030203e20232002 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe mighty experiment free labor versus slavery in British emancipation /Seymour DrescherOxford ;Oxford University Press,2023.�2002.1 online resource (318 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2002.0-19-517629-4 0-19-509346-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index.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; NotesSelected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThis 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.Oxford scholarship online.Antislavery movementsGreat BritainSlaveryEconomic aspectsGreat BritainSlavesEmancipationEconomic aspectsGreat BritainSocial sciences and historyGreat BritainAntislavery movementsSlaveryEconomic aspectsSlavesEmancipationEconomic aspectsSocial sciences and history306.3620941326/.0942331.11720941331.11720941Drescher Seymour153733DLCDLCUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910808142203321The mighty experiment4005878UNINA