The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810Humanities Press, 1975 - 456 páginas Few phenomena of modern history have cast so long a shadow as that of black slavery or branded themselves so deeply in the historical consciousness of both Africa and the Western world. Inevitably it has left a trail of controversy, not least among historians, who take violently opposed views of the internal effects of the slave trade upon Africa, who magnify or disparage its role in the Atlantic economy, and who assign widely differing explanations of British moves to secure its abolition. It is symptomatic of the paradox of much of our contemporary intellectual culture that under the influence of historical materialism it should instinctively deny an autonomous role to ideology while remaining itself so ideologically oriented. Yet the central statement of this viewpoint, Eric Williams' celebrated Capitalism and Slavery, undoubtedly threw a salutary douche of cold water over the smug complacency that had hitherto infected the received accounts of British abolition. The argument that British abolition, far from being an act of pure disinterested benevolence, fell into line with the country's economic interests and with the change from commercial to industrial capitalism has never been fully countered. The more exaggerated elements in his thesis have been duly assailed. That the profits of the slave trade should have been sufficiently large and well-directed to power the Industrial Revolution is a hypothesis as far-fetched as that which sees the wealth accumulated from the plunder of Bengal after the battle of Plassey as the main source of investment capital. Yet when purged of such exaggerated claims Williams' argument remains formidable. As D. B. Davis has acknowledged: "It is ... difficult ... to get around the simple fact that no country thought of abolishing the slave trade until its economic value had considerably declined." - Foreword. |
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... means that the population necessary to sustain without overall loss an annual drain of 14,000 slaves is 8,750,000 and the question which then poses itself is whether it is credible that the later eighteenth - century population of what ...
... means that the population necessary to sustain without overall loss an annual drain of 14,000 slaves is 8,750,000 and the question which then poses itself is whether it is credible that the later eighteenth - century population of what ...
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... means of inequality , human society is only well con- stituted if it reflects this principle . Pope , once more , puts it suc- cinctly in his well - known lines : 3 Essay on Man Epistle 11 , lines 265-8 . Ibid . , Epistle m , lines 293 ...
... means of inequality , human society is only well con- stituted if it reflects this principle . Pope , once more , puts it suc- cinctly in his well - known lines : 3 Essay on Man Epistle 11 , lines 265-8 . Ibid . , Epistle m , lines 293 ...
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... mean Loaded Died tality Loaded Died tality mortality 1791 15,108 1397 9.2 1791 19,978 1945 9.7 9.5 1792 26,971 2468 9.2 1792 26,705 2040 7.6 8.4 1793 11,720 859 7.3 1793 10,043 376 3.7 5.5 1794 14,611 394 2.7 1794 11,864 434 3.7 3.2 ...
... mean Loaded Died tality Loaded Died tality mortality 1791 15,108 1397 9.2 1791 19,978 1945 9.7 9.5 1792 26,971 2468 9.2 1792 26,705 2040 7.6 8.4 1793 11,720 859 7.3 1793 10,043 376 3.7 5.5 1794 14,611 394 2.7 1794 11,864 434 3.7 3.2 ...
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The Atlantic Slave Trade 17611810 | 3 |
The Profitability of the Slave Trade 17611810 | 38 |
The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa | 58 |
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