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2. British slave emancipation: the sugar colonies and the great experiment 1830-1865
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Green,William A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1976
- Published:
- Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 449 p
3. Some Problems of Federation in the British Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Osborne,William Adolphus (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 1956
- Published:
- Worcester, MA: Clark University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 281
4. Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carrington,Selwyn H. H. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 362 p, 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
5. Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Parker,Matthew (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: Walker & Co.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 446 p., The sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers. The wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture.
6. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor vs. Slavery in British Emancipation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Drescher,Seymour (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- New York, NY: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Product Description By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights.;
7. West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McDonald,Roderick A. (Author) and Sheridan,Richard B. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Barbados: Press University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 388 p, Contents: Richard B. Sheridan : the making of a Caribbean economic historian / Howard Johnson -- Capture of the blue dove, 1664 : policy, profits and protection in early English Jamaica / Nuala Zahedieh -- Taylor manuscript and seventeenth-century Jamaica / David Buisseret -- English Quaker merchants and war at sea, 1689-1783 / Jacob M. Price -- Edward Trelawny's "Grand Elixir" : metropolitan weakness and constitutional reform in the mid-eighteenth-century British empire / Jack P. Greene -- Botanical and horticultural enterprise in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- West India interest and the crisis of American independence / Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy -- United States and the British West Indian trade, 1783-1807 / Selwyn H. H. Carrington -- Property rights in pleasure : the marketing of slave women's sexuality in the West Indies / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Story of two Jamaican slaves : Sarah Affir and Robert McAlpine of Mesopotamia Estate / Richard S. Dunn -- Patterns of exchange within a plantation economy : Jamaica at the time of emancipation / B. W. Higman -- Planter profits and slave rewards : amelioration reconsidered / Mary Turner -- Abolition and emancipation : Williams, Drescher and the continuing debate / Walter Minchinton -- Ambivalencies of independence : the transition out of slavery in the Bahamas, c. 1800-1850 / Michael Craton -- Land and labour problem at the time of the legal emancipation of the British West Indian slaves / Stanley L. Engerman Urban crime and social control in St. Vincent during the apprenticeship / Roderick A. McDonald -- "Repression is not a policy" : Sydney Olivier on the West Indies and Africa / Richard A. Lobdell