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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drescher, Seymour, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--Great Britain.

Antislavery movements.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Great Britain.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Economic aspects--Great Britain.

Enslaved persons.

Social sciences and history--Great Britain.

Social sciences and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-771464-1

0-19-029196-6

1-280-52775-7

0-19-802536-X

0-19-518017-8

OCLC:

476014030