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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Drescher, Seymour.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:	307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Antislavery movements -- Great Britain. Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain. Slaves -- Emancipation -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain. Social sciences and history -- Great Britain. Antislavery movements. Slavery -- Economic aspects. Slaves -- Emancipation -- Economic aspects. Social sciences and history. Great Britain.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4652509

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ISBN:	0195093461 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
The Mighty Experiment
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 Epigoneand 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