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The American crucible : slavery, emancipation and human rights / Robin Blackburn.

by Blackburn, Robin.

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London ; New York : Verso, 2011.

Slavery -- America -- History.

Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- America.

Slavery -- Economic aspects -- America.

Antislavery movements -- America -- History.

Human rights -- America -- History.

Europe -- Colonies -- America.

9781844675692 :

498 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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.

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.

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