The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.'

This edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with an introduction by the authors and

"At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Betwe

In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding

When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid £20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on