Economic Growth & End of Transatlantic Slave Trade

by David Eltis

Book Overview

This watershed study is the first to consider in concrete terms the consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Why did Britain pull out of the slave trade just when it was becoming important for the world economy and the demand for labor around the world was high? Caught between the incentives offered by the world economy for continuing trade at full tilt and the ideological and political pressures from its domestic abolitionist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041356
• ISBN13: 9780195041354
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"