Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810
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- Author(s) Carrington, Selwyn H H
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2003
- Pages 362pp; illus
- Publisher University Press of Florida
- Place Published Gainesville FL
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the decline of the West Indies sugar industry from the War of American Independence. Chapters include: '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 the eighteenth century revolutions'; 'War, trade and planter survival, 1793-1810'; 'Profitability and decline - issues and concepts - an epilogue'