 The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies, are generally much greater than those of any other cultivation that is known either in Europe or America...  The London Magazine - Side 911827Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Helen Scott - 2006 - 220 sider
...sugar. "The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West India Colonies," wrote Adam Smith, in 1776, "are generally much greater than those of any other...cultivation that is known either in Europe or America'" (121). As early as 1697 Britain's triangular trade with Antigua accounted for 28,209 British pounds... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 590 sider
...tobacco colonies a very great part of it. The profits of a sugar-plantation in any of our West Indian colonies are generally much greater than those of...already been observed. Both can afford the expense of slave-cultivation, but sugar can afford it still better than tobacco. The number of negroes accordingly... | |
 | Sandhya Shukla, Heidi Tinsman - 2007 - 470 sider
...quite weak. Williams quotes Adam Smith: "The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies are generally much greater than those of...cultivation that is known either in Europe or America." Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 53.... | |
 | Ronald Walters - 2009 - 264 sider
...who averred in his Wealth of Nations, "The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies are generally much greater than those of...other cultivation that is known either in Europe or America."4 Slavery and the slave trade poured treasure into England, "building her cities, railways... | |
 | Kenneth Morgan - 2007 - 233 sider
...West Indies than in any other part of the world. Adam Smith stated that sugar plantation profits were 'generally much greater than those of any other cultivation that is known either in Europe or America'.2 Profit levels on plantations, the largest agricultural units in the first British Empire,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 516 sider
...tobacco colonies a very great part of it. The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies, are generally much greater than those of...as has already ,been observed. Both can afford the expence of slave cultivation, but sugar can afford it still better than tobacco. The number of negroes... | |
 | 194 sider
...tobacco colonies a very great part of it. The profits of a sugar-plantation in any of our West Indian colonies are generally much greater than those of...to those of sugar, are superior to those of corn. . . . Both can afford the expence of slave cultivation, but sugar can afford it still better than tobacco.... | |
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