The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carrington, Selwyn H. H., 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2002.
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Table of 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.