UID:
edocfu_9959237133602883
Format:
1 online resource (318 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-771464-1
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0-19-029196-6
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1-280-52775-7
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0-19-802536-X
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0-19-518017-8
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2002.
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-517629-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-509346-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195093469.001.0001
