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Seymour Drescher

The Mighty Experiment

Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation

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By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth.In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expend… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-517629-2
  • EAN: 9780195176292
  • Produktnummer: 22665559
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 318 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 477 g
  • Abbildungen: 1 line illus.
  • Gewicht: 477

Über den Autor


Seymour Drescher is University Professor of History and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Econocide: British Slavery in the Age of Abolition (1977), Capitalism and Antislavery (OUP, 1987), and From Slavery to Freedom (1999) and the co-editor of Slavery (OUP, 2001).

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