Calculation and Morality: The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles by Philippe Steiner, Caroline Oudin-Bastide

Calculation and Morality: The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles

Philippe Steiner, Caroline Oudin-Bastide

272 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were pres...

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