Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- ISBN-10
- 0195041356
- ISBN-13
- 9780195041354
- Category
- Antislavery movements
- Pages
- 418
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press
- Author
- David Eltis
Description
This is the first study to consider the consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade for British imperial expansion and the world economy.
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- 1987-06-11
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