Mighty Experiment : Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation.
Title:
Mighty Experiment : Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation.
Author:
Drescher, Seymour.
ISBN:
9780198025368
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (318 pages)
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 Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
After creating a complex system of slavery, in the late 18th century the British Empire became the first to divest itself of slavery. Seymour Drescher explores the history of the debate over slavery and free labor within Britain, and the contributions made by those who were instrumental in the formation of social sciences.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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