The Making of New World Slavery

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The Making of New World Slavery
Author : Robin Blackburn
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Publisher : Verso
Language : English
Release Date : 16 June 1997
ISBN : 1859848907
Pages : 624 pages
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'Blackburn's book has finally drawn the veil which concealed or made mysterious the history and development of modem society.' Darcus Howe, Guardian.

The Making of New World Slavery

'Blackburn's book has finally drawn the veil which concealed or made mysterious the history and development of modem society.' Darcus Howe, Guardian.

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The Making of New World Slavery

The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought-successfully-to feed upon this commerce and-with markedly less success-to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment

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A New World of Labor

By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound

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The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex

Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas that was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the

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Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies

Verzameling onderzoekspapers over slavernij in de Amerika's die bij elkaar zijn gebracht in het kader van een in 1976 in New York gehouden conferentie.

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Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes—from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraiba Valley—

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Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion

The emergence of a widespread ’plantation complex’, in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital, was a phenomenon of the New World. This book shows how the institution of slavery was transformed by the demand for labour in the Americas, to fill

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How the Word Is Passed

This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and

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