The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810 / Selwyn H.H. Carrington ; foreword by Colin Palmer.
Publication details: Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida , ©2002.Description: xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0813025575
- 9780813025575
- 081302742X
- 9780813027425
- 972.903 21 WI Cor
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National Library of Jamaica | Rare Books Floor | 972.903 WI Cor (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 1000000070056 |
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.
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