Title The sugar industry and the abolition of the slave trade, 1775-1810 / Selwyn H.H. Carrington ; foreword by Colin Palmer.

Publication Info.	Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2002]
	©2002

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HD9114.W42 C37 2002	Available	---

Description	xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
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.
Subject	Sugar trade -- West Indies, British -- History.
	Sugar trade.
	History.
	Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History.
	Slavery.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- West Indies, British -- History.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
	West Indies, British -- Economic conditions.
ISBN	0813025575 cloth alkaline paper