| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Selwyn H. H. Carrington. The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775–1810. Foreword by Colin Palmer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2002. Pp. xxii, 362. $59.95.

In his foreword to Selwyn H. H. Carrington's exhaustively researched book, Colin Palmer heralds it as "likely to be the most important work on the economic history of the Caribbean and the relationship of the state of the island economies to abolition and emancipation since Eric Williams published Capitalism and Slavery in 1944" (pp. xvi-xvii). Both the strengths and the limitations of Carrington's study are engendered by this lineage, particularly by its core "economic decline thesis," developed by the eminent Caribbean historian Lowell Ragatz in 1928, linked by Williams to the 1807 abolition of the British slave trade, and rejected ever since by those North Atlantic historians who have preferred a philanthropic and largely metropolitan genealogy for slave trade abolition. Although Carrington himself does not always pursue the wide-ranging possibilities that his data tantalizingly suggest, his book may well help to outline new plots and recast the dramatis personae for future studies of empire, slavery, and the political economies of the Atlantic world.

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