Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition by Seymour Drescher

Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition

Seymour Drescher

279 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British p...

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