This book studies how, from the last third of the 18th century to 1848, comparative costs of slave and free labor played a key role in the French debate over the abolition of slavery. The book thus offers an original view upon the connection between economic calculation and morality.
An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question." -Oeconomia
