Seymour Drescher.

Seymour Drescher. The Mighty Experiment: independent Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation. fresh York: Oxford University Press. 2002 Pp vi, 307$5000 ISBN 0-19-509346-1

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

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