The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810 / Selwyn H.H. Carrington ; foreword by Colin Palmer.

By:

Carrington, Selwyn H. H, 1937-

Publication details: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2002.Description: xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0813025575
9780813025575
081302742X
9780813027425

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

972.9/03 21

LOC classification:

HD9114.W42 C37 2002

Other classification:

15.85
NW 8295

Online resources:

Contents:

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.

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

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

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

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