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Economics, slavery and Victorian reformers
Author(s) -
Arthur Terry
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00294
Subject(s) - mill , governor , institution , law , sociology , economic history , political science , history , engineering , archaeology , aerospace engineering
The‘Governor Eyre controversy’about events in 1865 illustrates the views about slavery held by various opinion leaders of the time. Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens and Charles Kingsley either supported black slavery or were lukewarm about its abolition. John Stuart Mill and other classical economists, however, were abolitionists, realising that slavery is not a free market institution.