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200 14$aThe mighty experiment $efree labor versus slavery in British emancipation /$fSeymour Drescher
210  1$aOxford ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023.
210  4$d?2002.
215   $a1 online resource (318 p.)
225 1 $aOxford scholarship online
300   $aPreviously issued in print: 2002.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index.
327   $aContents; 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
327   $aSelected 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
330 8 $aThis study analyses Great Britain's withdrawal from the transatlantic slave system. It argues that it was a rational social experiment and that emancipation was designed to minimise agitation on both sides of the Atlantic.
410  0$aOxford scholarship online.
606   $aAntislavery movements$zGreat Britain
606   $aSlavery$xEconomic aspects$zGreat Britain
606   $aSlaves$xEmancipation$xEconomic aspects$zGreat Britain
606   $aSocial sciences and history$zGreat Britain
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