Die wirtschaftlichen und politischen Motive für die Abschaffung des britischen Sklavenhandels im Jahre 1806/07

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Identifikator:: 1008917265

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-19129

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Author:: Flückiger, Otto http://d-nb.info/gnd/117736708

Title:: Die Schweiz

Edition:: Zweite Auflage

Place of publication:: Zürich

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Schultheß & Co.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 243 Seiten)

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Collection:: Economics Books

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XXV 1. 95 attach. Upon a reference to the average prices .... which vary from 36 sh. to 31 sh it appears evident that the planters must have cultivated their estates at a loss. During the period of prosperity previous to 1800 the profits did not exceed IOV2 (return of capital) and from that period they have gradually diminished to 2Vs and IV2 per cent, till at the present moment, there is no return of interest of all. — Great however, as are the evils of the decrease of price .... it does not appear that they are the original causes of the distress but the main evil . . . . is the very unfavourable state of the foreign market, in which formerly the British merchant enjoyed nearly a monopoly, but where he cannot at present enter into competition with the planters, not only of the neutral, but of the hostile colonies. The result of all their inquiries .... have brought before their eyes one grand and primary evil, from which all the others are easily to be deduced: namely, the facility of intercourse between the hostile colonies and Europe, under the American Neutral flag, by means of wich . . . the whole of their produce is carried to a market .... at charges little exceeding those of peace; while the British planter is burthened with all the inconvenience, risk and expence, resulting from a state of war .... In order to counter balance, in some degree, the advantages thus enjoyed by the hostile colonies .... it has been recommended ... a blockade of the ports of the enemy’s settlements . ... (S. 6). Your commitee having briefly stated the distressed situ ation of the West India Planter .... have only to add, that unless some speedy and efficient measures of relief are adopted, the ruin ofagreat number of the planters... must inevitably very soon take place, which must be follo wed by the loss of a vast capital .... and by the most fatal injury to the commercial, maritime and finanzial interest of Great Britain!“ Diese Schilderung enthält sicherlich einen Hauptbeweg grund für die Abolition ! Zweiter Teil. Der Friede von Amiens 1802 und die Rückgabe der englischen Eroberungen. Über diese an und für sich schon ziemlich trostlosen west indischen Verhältnisse brach obendrein noch 1802 der für England wenig günstige Seefriede von Amiens herein. Durch den Frieden von Luneville 1801 aller Bundesgenossen auf dem

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