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Econocide : British slavery in the era of abolition / Seymour Drescher ; with a new preface by the author ; and a new foreword by David Brion Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drescher, Seymour.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery--West Indies, British.
- Slavery.
- Slave trade--Great Britain.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--West Indies, British.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 The Decline Theory of Abolition; 2 The 1770's as the Pivot of British Slavery; 3 The Protected Economy Before the French Slave Revolution; 4 The Unprotected Economy Before the French Slave Revolution; 5 The Growth of Slavery in the Era of British Supremacy; 6 The New Frontier and Abolition; 7 Economic Conjuncture and Abolition Bills, 1791-1806; 8 The Market Mechanism and Abolition; 9 Abolition and the Decline of British Slavery, 1808-1814; 10 Beyond Economic Interest; List of Abbreviations
- Appendix I. Chronology Appendix II. Estimating the Sugar, Coffee, and Slave Trades; Appendix III. The Relative Strength of Suggested Motives in the Votes of 1806-1807; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908854-4-9
- 979-88-9313-432-2
- 1-4696-0432-9
- 0-8078-9959-3
- OCLC:
- 676696992
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