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Calculation and morality : the costs of slavery and the value of emancipation in the French Antilles / Caroline Oudin-Bastide and Philippe Steiner.
LIBRA HT1180 .O9313 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oudin-Bastide, Caroline, author.
- Steiner, Philippe, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Calcul et morale. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817--Influence.
- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel.
- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
- Slavery--Economic aspects--France--Colonies.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Economic aspects.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- France.
- Colonies.
- Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--France--Colonies.
- Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Slavery--France--Colonies--History.
- Slavery--France--Public opinion--History.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Slavery--Colonies.
- Slavery--Public opinion.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages cm ; 23 CM
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- 1 Du Pont, or: The Economic Error of Slavery, as Demonstrated by Calculation p. 25
- 2 The Proliferating Use of Calculation among Eighteenth-Century Abolitionists p. 37
- Turgot versus Du Pont p. 37
- Condorcet and the Abolitionist Current p. 42
- How to Calculate? p. 50
- 3 Colonists Also Calculate p. 57
- Émilien Petit and the Errors and Omissions of Du Pont's Calculations p. 57
- The Calculations of the Masters p. 60
- The Maintenance of Plantations and the Grandeur of France p. 64
- There Is Only Forced Labor p. 65
- 4 Moving away from the Rhetoric of Calculation p. 73
- The Viewpoint of British Economists p. 74
- The Paradoxical Position of Jean-Baptiste Say p. 76
- The Replies p. 80
- Say's Lengthy and Incomplete Adjustment of His Position p. 83
- 5 The Institutional Inscription of Calculation p. 93
- The Developing Political Conjuncture p. 94
- Administration, Statistics, and the Return of Calculation p. 98
- The Institutional Practice of Calculatory Rhetoric p. 102
- The Schœlcher Commission and the End of Comparative Calculation p. 111
- 6 Another Form of Calculation: Productivity p. 117
- Calculations of Labor Productivity in the Eighteenth Century p. 118
- The Productivity Gap between Slave Labor and Free Labor: A Key Element in the Abolitionist Discourse of the Nineteenth Century p. 121
- 7 Self-interest and Needs p. 133
- Black Slaves Cannot Enter into the Logic of Interest p. 133
- Liberty Is the Mother of Self-Interest p. 139
- White Workers as a Stimulus to Work through Self-Interest in the Colonies p. 147
- 8 Status and Interest p. 161
- Slavery as the Best of All Conditions for Black People p. 162
- How Might a Free Labor Force Be Persuaded that the Plantation System Be Maintained? p. 165
- Project Placing the Plantation System in Question p. 175
- 9 Justice and Utility p. 193
- The Strength of Morality and Economic Self-interest p. 194
- The Nation and the Hierarchy of Interests p. 197
- The Nation and the African Project p. 201
- A Useless Reform p. 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oudin-Bastide, Caroline. Calculation and morality.
- ISBN:
- 9780190856854
- 0190856858
- OCLC:
- 1040084918
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