Economic change and contract labor in the British Caribbean: The end of slavery and the adjustment to emancipation

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    I thank David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, David Eltis, David Galenson, Eugene Genovese, William Green, James Irwin, and Keith Laurence for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. This paper was presented at the University of Hull conference on “Legacies of West Indian Slavery,” and will be published in David Richardson (Ed.), Abolition and Its Aftermath in the West Indies: Volume I: The Historical Context, 1790–1870 (London: Frank Cass & Co.). Financial assistance was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES-8121026.

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