The Mighty Experiment. Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation

Drescher, Seymour

New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Hardcover. 307p., hardbound in blue boards titled silverfoil and dust jacket. Mild edgewear to casing and dj with a couple tiny corner-tip turnings; sound and unmarked, but very faintly musty. The especially susceptable should be wary, most will not notice.

The teeterings of slavery advocacy and abolitionism. From p.237, what sounds like a precis of Drescher's personal position: "The economics of moral action has continued to haunt the history of abolition to this day. The costs of bringing down slavery were heavy.."

Cat.No: 253410
ISBN: 0195093461

Price: $18.00