Emancipation: The Contrasting Approaches of Great Britain and the American Republic (WL)
Stryker Center at the Williamsburg Regional Library 412 N. Boundary Street, Williamsburg, VAThis 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...