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

• Autore: Drescher Seymour
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023; �2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3620941; 326/.0942; 331.11720941
• Soggetto topico: Antislavery movements - Great Britain; Slavery - Economic aspects - Great Britain; Slaves - Emancipation - Economic aspects - Great Britain; Social sciences and history - Great Britain
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The mighty experiment
• ISBN: 0-19-771464-1; 0-19-029196-6; 1-280-52775-7; 0-19-802536-X; 0-19-518017-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808142203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.