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Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eltis, David, 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--Great Britain--History.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--Africa--History.
- Slave trade--America--History.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first study to consider the consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade for British imperial expansion and the world economy.
- Contents:
- Contents; Tables; Figures; I: Antislavery in the Context of British Expansion and Industrialization; II: The Atlantic Slave System, 1760-1830; III: The Abolitionist Assault on Slave Traffic, 1820-50; IV: The Mechanics of the Illegal Slave Trade: Economic and Political Aspects, 1820-70; V: The Midcentury Atlantic Economy and Final Suppression, 1830-70; Appendixes; Notes; Sources; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography: p. 399-404 and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-43954-8
- 1-4237-3602-8
- 0-19-536481-3
- 1-60129-610-X
- OCLC:
- 123497774
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