Memoranda supporting the maintenance of the monopoly price to West Indian plantation owners for the sale of their sugar to Britain in order to safeguard the welfare of the free labour employed by them and illustrating the dependence of the cotton-manufacturing industry in England on the supply of cotton from the United States produced by slave labour, the danger of a revolt among Black people in those states, and its effect on the workers in England, n.d.
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 444 Vol. 29, pp. 419-426
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It was argued that production of cotton in other parts of the world was not likely to offset the loss of cotton from America if such a revolt should occur, but that there was one area of the world that could be made use of in this way [Africa].
Dates
- Creation: n.d.
Extent
8 pages
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 444 Vol. 29, pp. 419-426
Former reference:
F 14
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