The mighty experiment : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation

The mighty experiment : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation / Seymour Drescher.

By the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Great Britain had amassed Europe's largest imperial stake in the transatlantic slave system. During the next three generations the British dismantled that stake in a graduated series of withdrawals. This process has been portrayed, on the one hand...

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Main Author:	Drescher, Seymour
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Antislavery movements > Great Britain. Slavery > Economic aspects > Great Britain. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Economic aspects > Great Britain. Social sciences and history > Great Britain. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery. Antislavery movements Slavery > Economic aspects Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Economic aspects Social sciences and history Great Britain
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