For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this ‘peculiar institution’ and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, in the United States in the 1860s and Brazil in the 1880s. Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement helped forge the political and social ideals we live by today.
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Robin Blackburn is the critically acclaimed author of The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery and The American Crucible. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Essex and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He lives in London
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 520 ● ISBN 9781781685365 ● File size 4.2 MB ● Publisher Verso ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3231294 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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