The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

Eric Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2014
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3139-9 (ISBN)

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In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that has set the tone for an entire field. Williams’s profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development and has been widely debated since the book’s initial publication in 1944. The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery now makes available in book form for the first time his dissertation, on which Capitalism and Slavery was based. The significant differences between his two works allow us to rethink questions that were considered resolved and to develop fresh problems and hypotheses. It offers the possibility of a much deeper reconsideration of issues that have lost none of their urgency—indeed, whose importance has increased.

Eric Williams was the most prominent intellectual from the English-speaking Caribbean in the twentieth century. He was a leader of West Indian independence and the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1955 to 1981. Dale W. Tomich is professor emeritus of sociology and history at Binghamton University, State University of New York. William Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University.

Preface
Dale Tomich

Introduction: From the Dissertation to Capitalism and Slavery: Did Williams's Abolition Thesis Change?
William Darity Jr.

The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery
Eric Williams
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: The Impolicy of the Slave System
Chapter 2: The Superiority of the French West Indies
Chapter 3: East India Sugar
Chapter 4: The Attempt to Secure an International Abolition
Chapter 5: The West Indian Expeditions
Chapter 6: The Significance of the West Indian Expeditions
Chapter 7: The Abolition of the Slave Trade
Part II
Chapter 8: The Abolitionists and Emancipation
Chapter 9: The Foreign Slave Trade
Chapter 10: East India Sugar
Chapter 11: The Distressed Areas
Chapter 12: The Industrialists and Emancipation
Epilogue
Appendix I: "The Influential Men"
Appendix II: Ramsay as an Authority
Appendix III: The Intercolonial Slave Trade
Bibliography

Reihe/Serie	World Social Change
Einführung	William Darity
Zusatzinfo	2 b/w illustrations; 20 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4422-3139-4 / 1442231394
ISBN-13	978-1-4422-3139-9 / 9781442231399
Zustand	Neuware