The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights

Robin Blackburn

ISBN 10: 1844675696 / ISBN 13: 9781844675692

Editore: Verso Books, London, 2011

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• Titolo: The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
• Editore: Verso Books, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844675696
• ISBN 13: 9781844675692
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good Plus
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus

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The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization, silver mining, plantation agriculture, racial enslavement, colonial rebellion, slave witness and slave resistance. Slave produce raised up empires, fostered new cultures of consumption and financed the breakthrough to an industrial order.

Not until the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the 1780s was there the first public challenge to the ‘peculiar institution’. An anti-slavery alliance then set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, Britain in 1833–8, the United States in the 1860s, and Cuba and Brazil in the 1880s. In The American Crucible, Robin Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement forged many of the ideals we live by today.

‘The best treatment of slavery in the western hemisphere I know of. I think it should
establish itself as a permanent pillar of the literature.’ Eric Hobsbawm


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Informazioni sugli autori

Robin Blackburn is a Leverhulme Research Fellow based at the University of Essex in the UK. He taught as a visitor at the New School for Social Research in New York between 2001 and 2010. He is the author of many books, including The Making of New World Slavery and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery.

Robin Blackburn is the author of The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492--1800 and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776--1848. He teaches at the University of Essex in the UK and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is a contributor to New Left Review and a member of its editorial committee.

Robin Blackburn is the author of The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848. He teaches at the University of Essex in the UK and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is a contributor to New Left Review and a member of its editorial committee.