Econocide : British slavery in the era of abolition / Seymour Drescher ; with a new preface by the author and a new foreword by David Brion Davis.

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 public's mobilization against the slave...

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