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Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery
from the perspective of the "second slavery." The concept of the
second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories
and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional
narratives of slavery by emphasizing the expansion of reconfigured
slaveries in extensive new zones of commodity production in Brazil,
Cuba and the US South as part of world-economic processes of
decolonization, industrialization, urbanization, and the creation
of mass markets. Thus, slavery was not a moribund institution.
Capitalist modernity, liberal ideology, and anti-slavery from above
or from below, faced a vigorous foe that operated within the very
economic, political, and cultural premises of the changing 19th
century world. This perspective offers an original approach to the
history of slavery. It has opened up vigorous debates over slavery
and anti-slavery, Atlantic history and capitalism. An international
group of scholars critically engage older traditions of scholarship
on Atlantic history, the economic history of slavery, and the
history of slavery in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States from the
perspective of the second slavery. Each chapter reinterprets its
subject matter in a way that opens out to dialogue between national
historiographies and to a reformulation of Atlantic and
world-economic history. This collection of essays contributes to
the development of a more productive conceptual framework for the
reconstruction and reinterpretation of the historical relation of
slavery and world capitalism during the nineteenth century.
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