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British Slavers: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Seymour Drescher
Seymour Drescher
Affiliation:
Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260.
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Abstract

In his essay J. E. Inikori argues that the British slavers “had freedom to carry as many slaves per ship as possible” to foreign colonies after 1788.1 He takes issue with my argument in Econocide that the British regulatory acts applied equally to those in the British direct trade to foreign colonies.2 In support of this he cites instances of British slave ships that undoubtedly loaded far more than the allowed slaves per ton in 1803.

Type
A Symposium on the Atlantic Slave Trade
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 705
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1985

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References

1 Inikori, J. E., “Market Structure and the Profits of the British African Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century,” this JOURNAL, 41 (12 1981), pp. 745–76.Google Scholar

2 Drescher, , Econocide (Pittsburgh, 1977), p. 212.Google Scholar

3 p. 71 and note.Google Scholar

4 Inikori, “Market Structure,” p. 766, n. 73.Google Scholar

5 p. 766, my emphasis.Google Scholar

6 See Drescher, Econocide, p. 29 and Figure 6, p. 73;Google ScholarAnstey, Roger, “The Volume and Profitability of the British Slave Trade, 1761–1807,” Engerman, Stanley L. and Genovese, Eugene, eds., in Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies (Princeton, 1975).Google Scholar

7 Drescher, Econocide, p. 239, n. 12.Google Scholar