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Carrington, Selwyn H. H., 1937-

The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810 / Selwyn H.H. Carrington ; foreword by Colin Palmer. - Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2002. - xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.

Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue.

"Provides detailed examination of the political economy of sugar production in the British west Indies"--Book cover.

ISBN: 0813025575 9780813025575 081302742X 9780813027425

Source: a lrf

LCCN: 2002018073

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA307292 bnb

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte 1769-1810.
Geschichte 1769-1810

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sugar trade--History.--West Indies, British
Slavery--History.--West Indies, British
Slaves--Emancipation--History.--West Indies, British
Economic history.
Slavery.
Slaves--Emancipation.
Sugar trade.
Abschaffung.
Sklaverei.
Zuckerindustrie.
Suikerindustrie.
Suikerrietplantages.
Slavernij.
Sugar trade--History.--West Indies,British
Slavery--West Indies, British.
Slaves--Emancipation--West Indies, British.
Zuckerindustrie.
Sklaverei.
Abschaffung.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
West Indies, British--Economic conditions.
West Indies--British West Indies.
Westindien.
West Indies, British--Economic conditions.
Westindien.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: HD9114.W42 / C37 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 972.9/03