The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Seymour Drescher. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp vi, 307.$50.00. ISBN 0-19-509346-1.

As historians continue to ponder the causes of British antislavery between the 1780s and the slave emancipation act of 1833, they have in recent years tended to question the importance of economic factors in shaping abolition and to place increasing weight on cultural, humanitarian, and political factors. Indeed, in what amounts to a reversal of the interpretation of abolitionism presented by the late Eric ...

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