The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810 / Selwyn H.H. Carrington ; foreword by Colin Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrington, Selwyn H. H., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar trade--West Indies, British--History.

Sugar trade.

Slavery--West Indies, British--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--West Indies, British--History.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

History.

West Indies, British--Economic conditions.

West Indies, British.

Physical Description:

xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: Methodology and Historical Assessment of the Literature 1

1. Sugar Production and British Caribbean Dependence on External Markets, 1769-1776 13

2. The American War and the British Caribbean Economy 38

3. British Policy, Canadian Preference, and the West Indian Economy, 1783-1810 63

4. The Sugar Market after 1775 91

5. Debt, Decline, and the Sugar Industry, 1775-1810 116

6. New Management Techniques and Planter Reforms 137

7. Hired Slave Labour 165

8. British Caribbean Slavery and Abolition 188

9. The Sugar Industry and Eighteenth-Century Revolutions 221

10. War, Trade, and Planter Survival, 1793-1810 246

11. Profitability and Decline: Issues and Concepts

An Epilogue 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-348) and index.

ISBN:

0813025575

OCLC:

49383583