Capitalism and Antislavery
British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Drescher, Seymour
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Three hundred years ago Britain was what she is again, a mid-sized island off the coast of Eurasia. Between then and now she became the centre of a world economy. And just midway upon this imperial passage the people of the Empire, free Britons and colonial slaves, secured the destruction of slavery and hastened its demise throughout the world. Those who were part of Britain's Atlantic economy but free of direct economic dependency were the most effective agents in that process. The great novelty of this process therefore lay in the fact that for the first time in history the nonslave masses, including working men and women, played a direct and decisive role in bringing chattel slavery to an end. Seymour Drescher's study focuses attention on the period when popular pressure was effectively deployed as a means of altering national policy, and at those fault-lines in British society which seem to have partly determined the timing and intensity of abolition.
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The Foundations of Slavery and Antislavery
Pages 1-24
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Border Skirmish: Neither Wages nor the Whip
Pages 25-49
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The Distinctiveness of British Abolitionist Mobilization
Pages 50-66
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The Breakthrough 1787–92
Pages 67-88
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The Impact of Popular Mobilization in Britain and the Caribbean
Pages 89-110
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Capitalism and Antislavery
- Book Subtitle
- British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective
- Authors
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- Seymour Drescher
- Copyright
- 1986
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-07000-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-349-07000-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-36209-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 300
- Topics
