... vast amount of scholars that the question of slavery abolition forced a large group of scientists to follow the slavery study direction. The initial moral basis which will be discussed further was destructed by such abolition scholars' research as Eric Williams in his book "Capitalism and Slavery" (1964), Seymour Drescher in his "Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation" (2002) and Selwyn Carrington "The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810" (2002). In order to assess the abolition reasoning and consequences adequately it is important to make reviews of all these three works. Drescher described the British Act of Emancipation, as the title literally suggests, as a "Mighty Experiment" and evaluated it from the view point of a political economy. Drescher based his judgement of the Act on scientists' statements such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus who argued about the moral basis of slavery. ...

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