...on the contrary, the whole work is done by slaves, and in our tobacco colonies a very great part of. The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West...are generally much greater than those of any other 1 Where slavery proper subsists, any lias to bear its share of the hardship ; improvement in the process...

...is done by freemen. The late resolution of the Quakers in Pennsylvania, to set at liberty all their negro slaves, may satisfy us that their number cannot...generally much greater than those of any other cultivation thai is known either in Europe or America ; and the profits of a tobacco plantation, though inferior...

...eighteenth century; they held the position which American or South African millionaires hold now. " The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies," writes Adam Smith, " are generally much greater than those of any other cultivation that is known either...

...colonies of which the principal produce is corn, the far greater part of the work is done by freemen. ... In our sugar colonies on the contrary, the whole work...generally much greater than those of any other cultivation either in Europe or America: And the profits of a tobacco plantation, though inferior to those of sugar,...

...as one employed in the 'Bread colonies' to the north, Adam Smith allowed in more general terms that 'the profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West...cultivation that is known either in Europe or America'. Much of this emphasis on the West Indies is, of course, the verdict of later generations on the fulfilled...

...had to admit, three-quarters of a century later, that, 'The profits of a sugar plantation in any one of our West Indian colonies are generally much greater...cultivation that is known either in Europe or America.' The mainland colonies, though they too attained modest prosperity in the later seventeenth century,...

...of West Indian sugar estates which, with slave labour, had been claimed by Adam Smith (1776) to be 'generally much greater than those of any other cultivation that is known either in Europe or America' (at least, that is, for prudent planters), became much more difficult to sustain at former levels;...

...roughly 10,000 slaves. Within five years, that number had virtually doubled." In 1776, Adam Smith wrote: "The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West...other cultivation that is known either in Europe or America."12 During the first half of the seventeenth century, West Indian sugar plantations provided...

...colonies pay has given rise to a long debate. Adam Smith wrote that the profits of a sugar-plantation in any of our West Indian colonies are generally much...other cultivation that is known either in Europe or in America. And the profits of a tobacco plantation though inferior to those of sugar, are superior...

...four million pounds, compared with one from the rest of the world; and even Adam Smith thought that "the profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West...generally much greater than those of any other cultivation . . . known in Europe or America."8 Some signs of the newly organized opposition to the idea of abolition...