Blackburn Robin - The Reckoning From The Second Slavery To Abolition 1776 - 1888 - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Critically acclaimed historian of slavery in the Americas The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth - century Brazil Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows how a fusion of industrial capitalism and transatlantic war and revolution turbo - charged racial oppression and the westwards expansion of the United States. Blackburn identifies the new territories new victims and new battle cries of the Second Slavery. He emphasises the role of financial credit in the spread of plantation agriculture traces the connections between slavery and the US Civil War and asks why Brazil threw off Portuguese rule whereas Cuba became one of imperial Spain's final outposts. The Second Slavery faced a fearful reckoning in the 1860s and after when the supposedly invincible Slave Power was defied by extraordinary cross - class international and interracial alliances. Blackburn narrates the abolitionists difficult victory over the enslavers while documenting the racial backlash which brought on Jim Crow and cheated the freedmen and freedwomen of the fruits of their struggle.
Title: The Reckoning From The Second Slavery To Abolition 1776 - 1888
Author(s): Blackburn Robin
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781804293416
Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Black & Asian Studies