David Beck Ryden, Ryden David Beck

West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783 1807

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521148047
• ISBN-10: 0521148049
• Artikelnr.: 29985157

Autorenporträt

David Beck Ryden (Associate Professor of History, University of Houston - Downtown) has degrees in Economics and History from Connecticut College (BA), the University of Delaware's College of Business and Economics (MA), and the University of Minnesota's Department of History (Ph.D.). He is the author of several articles on British American slave societies for Slavery and Abolition, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Social Science History. He is also editor of The Promoters of the Slave Trade, a collection of pro-slavery pamphlets produced by West Indian planters during the age of abolition. The Economic History Association selected Ryden's dissertation as a finalist for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize. He was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of American Studies and History at Brunel University in London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Producing a peculiar commodity
2. The Atlantic economy's political economic power
3. Jamaican planters and the London West India interest
4. The production and distribution of Jamaican muscovado
5. Duties, drawbacks, and the uncommitted mercantilists
6. The management of slaves in Jamaica
7. Abolition and colonial reform
8. Antiabolition and colonial rights: the defense of the slave trade
9. A business paradox: rising productivity and collapsing profitability
10. Rapid decline and abolition.