American Crucible Blackburn Robin
American Crucible Blackburn Robin The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. The New World became the crucible for a succession…
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American Crucible Blackburn Robin
The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. 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. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world.
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. 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'. In The American Crucible, Robin Blackburn