Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3911351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Hogendorn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 181 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, David Eltis, 1987 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219925 |
| OpenAlex | W2604120398 |
| Language | EN |
This study is the first to consider the consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade for British imperial expansion and the world economy. It argues that the British led the way in ending that trade just when it was beginning to be important for the world economy, when there was a great need for labour around the world, and shows that Britain's control of the slave trade and great reliance on slave labour had played a major role in its empire's rise to world economic dominance. Contesting the view that Britain stood to benefit from the abolition of the slave trade, the author shows that British economic expansion was hindered greatly as a result
Economics · International economics · International trade · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
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Caribbean Plantations and Indentured Labour, 1640–1917
Freedom and slavery and the shaping of Victorian Britain
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Joseph Woods, ‘merchant and philosopher’
Anti‐Slavery sentiment in children's literature, 1750–1850
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Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Cultures of Exchange
Intercontinental migration as a world historical process
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Le versant brésilien de l'Atlantique-Sud
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| Highly cited | No |
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