The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810
By: Selwyn H.H. Carrington ; foreword by Colin Palmer.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Gainesville, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Sugar trade -- West Indies, British -- History; Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History; Slaves -- Emancipation -- West Indies, British -- History; West Indies, British -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-348) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776; title: The American war and the British Caribbean economy; title: British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810; title: The sugar market after 1775; title: Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810; title: New management techniques and planter reforms; title: Hired slave labour; title: British Caribbean slavery and abolition; title: The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions; title: War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810; title: Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue.