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SUMMARY:Emancipation: The Contrasting Approaches of Great Britain and the American Republic
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will assess why Great Britain and the United 
 States approached emancipation differently. In Britain’s case\, the 
 willingness of Caribbean sugar planters to accept the Government’s 
 compensation offer derived from a conviction that liberalisation of the 
 national economy was inevitable and would ultimately undermine the 
 economics of West Indian sugar production. In the United States\, by 
 contrast\, cotton\, the staple crop of the southern states\, was extremely 
 profitable and as Britain and other European countries industrialized 
 demand was expected to remain strong. Slavery\, moreover\, was a defining 
 feature of southern society\, so that emancipation would seem to have 
 threatened the social position of the region’s most powerful elites. In 
 other words\, the Confederate States preferred war to giving up their way 
 of life. The irony is it is arguable whether compensated emancipation 
 stretched out over many years would have drastically altered social 
 relations and/or undermined the region’s economic viability\, especially 
 once account is taken of the vast costs of the war\, the attendant loss of 
 life\, and economic dislocations it created.     \n\nThe author was 
 formerly Adjunct Professor\, Fordham University (London Study Centre) and 
 Senior Tutorial Fellow\, Sussex University (Brighton\, UK).
LOCATION:Room 127\, Stryker Center (412 North Boundary Street)
ORGANIZER;CN="Allison Norfolk":MAILTO:anorfolk@wrl.org
CATEGORIES:Lectures
CONTACT;CN="Allison Norfolk":MAILTO:anorfolk@wrl.org
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