HIUS 4501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Saint-Domingue
14 Feb 2017
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Refutes the decline thesis and abolitionist movement as explanations for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery. He explains the decline thesis as : slavery form of commercial capitalism and the british ended it when it stopped being successful. Refute: gradual process not as stark as williams defined it, williams did not realize the adaptability of capitalism. In the 1770"s there was a pivot in british slavery. Colonies were less valuable and less vigorous in the last third of the 18th century than before. British competition before the decline of saint domingue. Where"s the american revolution in drescher"s analysis: easiest thing to remove from the equation because of the slave trade, because it was so largely self-sufficient.
