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Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Present Condition of the Negro Population, in the British Colonies; Particularly in Relation to the Working of the Apprenticeship System Established Under the “Act for the Abolition of Slavery [3 and 4 Will. IV., C. 73]”
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Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
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Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: J. N. Adams
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804
Author: David Eltis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521840686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521840686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
The World as it Is. A New and Comprehensive System of Modern Geography ...
Author: William Cooke Taylor
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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The Mighty Experiment
Author: Seymour Drescher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights. The Mighty Experiment was the winner of First Prize, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights. The Mighty Experiment was the winner of First Prize, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
1807-2007
Author: Mike Kaye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900918612
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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ISBN: 9780900918612
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments
Author: E. N. Elliott
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Proslavery Britain
Author: Paula E. Dumas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113755858X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to propaganda, scientific studies, and parliamentary papers, Proslavery Britain explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation. It finds that proslavery arguments and rhetoric were carefully crafted to justify slavery, defend the colonies, and attack the abolition movement at the height of the slavery debates.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113755858X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to propaganda, scientific studies, and parliamentary papers, Proslavery Britain explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation. It finds that proslavery arguments and rhetoric were carefully crafted to justify slavery, defend the colonies, and attack the abolition movement at the height of the slavery debates.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .