The American crucible : slavery, emancipation and human rights
Title:
The American crucible : slavery, emancipation and human rights
Author:
Blackburn, Robin.
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Publication Information:
London ; New York : Verso, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary:
A history of the rise and abolition of slavery in the Americas covers such topics as the plantation revolution of the seventeenth century, the emergence of anti-slavery thought, and the contributions of such figures as Thomas Paine and Frederick Douglass.
Language:
English
Contents:
Zones of slave-based development and of slave resistance, c. 1770 -- Slavery and the West -- Empires and plantations. The Spanish conquest : destruction, enslavement, and the Baroque ; Mercantile empire and the slave plantation : Brazil leads, the Dutch, English, and French refine the formula ; Plantation hierarchy, social order, and the Atlantic system -- The subversive boom. Slavery and industrialization ; Black aspirations and the 'Picaresque Proletariat' ; The planters back colonial revolt ; From the critique of slavery to the abolitionist movement -- The Haitian pivot. Haitians claim the rights of man ; Results and prospects I : slave-trade abolition ; Results and prospects II : Latin America -- The age of abolition. Abolitionism advances, but slavery is resurgent ; Anti-slavery : its scope, character and appeal ; The keys to emancipation ; The spiral path : ambiguous victories, contested legacies.
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ISBN:
9781844675692
Format :
Book
