The American crucible slavery, emancipation and human rights /.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London Verso 2011Description: 498 p. ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1844675696
  • 9781844675692
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction : 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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
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book Library of Colonial History 121.939 H Available 8348932-10

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : 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.