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    9. Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810

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    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