SWEET BUSINESS: QUANTIFYING THE VALUE ADDED IN THE BRITISH COLONIAL SUGAR TRADE IN THE 18<sup>TH</sup>CENTURY

Rönnbäck, Klas

doi:10.1017/s0212610914000081

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“…18 Between 1700 and 11 Morgan (2000); Sheridan (2007;1974); Findlay & O'Rourke (2007: 335-9); Wright (2002: 362). 12 Sheridan (1957: 62-83); Rönnbäck (2014): 23-45. 13 Riello (2013: 135-59); Inikori (2002: 405-472); Kobayashi (2019) ;Richardson, (1979:303-330).…”

Section: Products and Atlantic Marketsmentioning

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Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Berg¹,

Hudson²

2021

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We challenge the idea that Britain�s short-lived industrial primacy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries is explained by �comparative advantage� in high-level artisan skills possessed by an elite workforce. Skills were vital to the industrial revolution but the timing of change and its regional concentration suggest that Britain�s rise to dominance in Atlantic trade was the major causal factor. Rapidly growing markets in Africa and the Americas, especially for textiles and metalwares, centred on Britain�s leading role in the slave trade and the extension of her plantation frontier in the Caribbean. Structural and industrial change, concentrated in the economic hinterlands of Atlantic ports, facilitated product and process revolutions. Diverse Atlantic demands and new Atlantic raw material supplies stimulated skill development and key innovations in light and heavy industry.

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“…38 In England and Wales 35 Inikori (2002;314-61); Hudson (2021). 36 Hudson (2014); Hudson (2021); Rönnbäck (2014). 37 Inikori (2002: 362-404); Hudson (1989).…”

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Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

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Hudson²

2021

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“…In recent years, there have been various attempts at studying the creation of value-added in historical transnational value-chains, for example in the transatlantic slave-and colonial goods trades (Combrink, 2017; Eltis & Engerman, 2000;Fatah-Black & Van Rossum, 2015;Rönnbäck 2014Rönnbäck , 2018. A value chain, according to the leading theorists Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris 'describes the full range of activities which are required to bring a product or service from conception, through the different phases of production […] to final consumers' (Kaplinsky & Morris, 2001, p. 4).…”

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

Rönnbäck

Müller

2020

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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The narrative of the Swedish East India Company (SEIC) is a well-known part of Sweden's eighteenth century history. The company is known as a profitable venture, the only successful chartered company in Sweden, but with a limited impact upon the country's economic development. In this paper, we employ a value-chain analysis to estimate the Swedish East India trade's magnitude in terms of value-added. The results show that the success of the company was not based on monopolised domestic market in Sweden, a typical strategy of big chartered companies. The most valuable line of SEIC's business (Chinese teas) was rather based on re-exports to other countries in Europe. Our quantitative estimates also show that the Swedish East India trade eventually made up a non-negligible share, and in particular a major share of the transport and trade sectors, of the Swedish economy during a long part of the eighteenth century.

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On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach

Rönnbäck¹

2018

Journal of Global History

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There has been a long-standing debate on the global importance of the African external slave trades. While many scholars believe these to have been detrimental to African development, they were clearly a determining factor in the development of the Americas. What role they played for the European colonial powers is, however, hotly debated. This article contributes to the debate by estimating value added in the Triangular Trade and the American plantation complex. The article empirically studies the case of British connections to the African slave trade and the American plantation complex during the eighteenth century, since these have been the focus of much previous scholarly debate. The estimates suggest that these trades grew substantially over the period, reaching a magnitude equivalent to about 11% of the British economy by the early nineteenth century.

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SWEET BUSINESS: QUANTIFYING THE VALUE ADDED IN THE BRITISH COLONIAL SUGAR TRADE IN THE 18^THCENTURY

Cited by 6 publications

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Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach

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Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach

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SWEET BUSINESS: QUANTIFYING THE VALUE ADDED IN THE BRITISH COLONIAL SUGAR TRADE IN THE 18^THCENTURY