The Reckoning : From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1804293415
ISBN-13
9781804293416
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 6th, 2024
Print length
544 Pages
Weight
722 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.30 x 4.00 cms
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Relating to Minority Ethnic or ethnically diverse peoples and groups of the UKHistory of the AmericasModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Slavery & abolition of slaveryEthnic studies / EthnicityEthnic groups and multicultural studiesEthnic minorities & multicultural studiesBlack & Asian studiesHistoryHistory of the AmericasSlavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery
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How was slavery defeated in the Americas? The Reckoning is Robin Blackburn's compelling and authoritative account
"Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best."
—Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship
A history of 19th century slavery in the US, Brazil and Cuba from a 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.
—Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship
A history of 19th century slavery in the US, Brazil and Cuba from a 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.
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