The West India Sugar Crisis and British Slave Emancipation, 1830–1833
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10104867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (University of Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 539-551 |
| Publication date | 1961-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700109040 |
| OpenAlex | W2125622880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 4 |
The West India sugar crisis of 1830–1832 dealt a shattering blow to an economy that was already in the grip of secular decline. Contributing to die decline were certain changes of a structural nature. In its heyday in the mid-eighteenth century, the British Caribbean economy was an important part of an international economy organized on the basis of imperial complementarity; it consisted of a base—the sugar colonies themselves—which was supported by three legs—the North American trade, the African trade and the British Isles trade. The base expanded geographically, largely as a consequence of military conquest, until fourteen Caribbean sugar colonies or groups of colonies were possessed by Great Britain in 1815. Moreover, the slave-plantation regime spread from colony to colony under a system of near-monoculture in the production of cane sugar
Ancient history · Biology · Cane · CONQUEST · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Emancipation · Geography · Monoculture · Political science · Sugar · Sugar production · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Ecology · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |