British West Indian Economic Decline and Abolition, 1775-1807

The debate over the factors which gave rise to the abolition of the slave trade has continued unceasingly since the republication of Capitalism and Slavery in 1964, the author demonstrate the negative impact which the Revolution and postwar British policy had on the state of the sugar industry and the continued development of the economy. The author has demonstrated also that the American War of the British West Indies, and this was deepened by stringently imposed mercantilist policies. Unlike the position adopted by Seymour Drescher, this article is an attempt to finalise the correction of Drescher's misconceptions of Capitalism and Slavery, and to establish the economic factors for the abolition of the slave trade in 1807

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