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100 1  Drescher, Seymour.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n80145924 
245 14 The mighty experiment :|bfree labor versus slavery in 
       British emancipation /|cSeymour Drescher. 
264  1 Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,|c2002. 
300    1 online resource (vi, 307 pages) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and 
       index. 
505 0  Contents; Introduction; 1. Modern Slavery and Modern 
       Freedom; 2. The Free Labor Ideology: Adam Smith; 3. From 
       Production to Reproduction: The Population Principle; 4. 
       Adam Smith's Epigone and the Retreat from the Free Labor 
       Ideology; 5. Heredity, Environment, and Change; 6. Sierra 
       Leone and Haiti: Emancipation as an Experimental Science; 
       7. Experimental Alternatives to Slavery, 1791-1833; 8. The
       Mighty Experiment; 9. Expanding the Experiment; 10. The 
       Experiment Eroded; 11. The Experiment in Crisis: Sugar, 
       Slaves, and Cotton; 12. An Experiment Abandoned; 13. Some 
       Lessons; Notes. 
505 8  Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; 
       K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. 
520    By the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Great 
       Britain had amassed Europe's largest imperial stake in the
       transatlantic slave system. During the next three 
       generations the British dismantled that stake in a 
       graduated series of withdrawals. This process has been 
       portrayed, on the one hand, as a rational disinvestment in
       a foundering overseas system by the world's greatest and 
       most dynamic economic power. On the other hand, it has 
       been assessed as the world's most expensive per capita 
       overseas investment in modern history. In this latter 
       perspective, British anti-slavery was the the crucial 
       element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all 
       time. For those who actually planned, debated, implemented,
       and adjusted to the process, ending British slavery was 
       best conceived neither as a timely withdrawal from a 
       failed economy nor an unprecedented national sacrifice. 
       Properly done, it was to be a rational social experiment. 
       Emancipation was designed to simultaneously minimize 
       agitation on both sides of the Atlantic, and to maximize 
       the scientifically proven superiority of free over slave 
       labor.; It would thereby not only benefit planters, 
       consumers, and capitalists within the empire, but also 
       accelerate the peaceful and voluntary surrender of 
       millions of chattels throughout the world. The 
       implementation and evaluation of emancipation turned out 
       to be a far more contentious affair than the originators 
       had anticipated. It absorbed minds of a whole generation 
       of parliamentarians, governments, and journalists. The 
       origin, execution, and public assessment of this great 
       experiment, in its own contemporary terms, is the subject 
       of this study. 
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655  4 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aDrescher, Seymour.|tMighty experiment.
       |dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002|w(DLC)
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