Selwyn H. H. Carrington. 1937-

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

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Sugar trade--History.--West Indies, British
Slavery--History.--West Indies, British
Slaves--Emancipation--History.--West Indies, British
Economic history.
Slavery.
Slaves--Emancipation.
Sugar trade.


West Indies, British--Economic conditions.
West Indies--British West Indies.


History.

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