Accounting, coercion and social control during apprenticeship: converting slave workers to wage workers in the British West Indies, c. 1834-1838. From: Accounting Historians Journal | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Fleischman, Richard K.; Oldroyd, David; Tyson, Thomas N. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Academy of Accounting Historians. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract: The paper describes the nature and role of accounting during apprenticeship--the transition period from slavery to waged labor in the British West Indies. Planters, colonial legislators, and Parliamentary leaders all feared that freed slaves would flee to open lands unless they were bound to plantations. Thus, rather than relying entirely on economic incentives to maintain viable plantations, the Abolition Act and subsequent local ordinances embodied a complex synthesis o...

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