View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.
"This fascinating study uses the tools and sources of diplomatic
history to examine a sweep of national and international history
far beyond the confines of diplomacya].For Horne, the slave trade,
rather than slavery, was an explosive political issue much later in
the 19th century that is normally understood. Highly
recommended."
--"Choice"
"A well-researched, skillfully-written, and carefully-argued
diplomatic history examining connections between the United States,
Brazil, Africa, and Europe as they relate to the transatlantic
slave trade. Horne sheds considerable light upon the ideas,
ruminations, and practices of U.S. nationals in their interactions
with and encounters of Brazil over the question of slavery,
especially from the mid-nineteenth century on, and makes a valuable
and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of
(American) hemispheric relations and trajectories, both eventual
and potential."
--Michael A. Gomez, editor of "Diasporic Africa: A Reader"
aAn important study that starts with the proposition that what
happens abroad affects developments in the United States. For the
first time we are made aware of the extensive contacts between
pro-slavery forces in the United States in the years after the
abolition of the slave trade and the promoters of slavery in and
the slave trade to Brazil and elsewhere.a
--Richard J. M. Blackett author of "Divided Hearts: Britain and the
American Civil War"
During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave
trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and
Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how
U.S.nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to
actively participate in this odious commerce by creating
diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which today has
the largest population of African origin outside of Africa
itself.
Proslavery Americans began to accelerate their presence in
Brazil in the 1830s, creating alliances there - sometimes friendly,
often contentious - with Portuguese, Spanish, British, and other
foreign slave traders to buy, sell, and transport African slaves,
particularly from the eastern shores of that beleaguered continent.
Spokesmen of the Slave South drew up ambitious plans to seize the
Amazon and develop this region by deporting the enslaved
African-Americans there to toil. When the South seceded from the
Union, it received significant support from Brazil, which correctly
assumed that a Confederate defeat would be a mortal blow to slavery
south of the border. After the Civil War, many Confederates, with
slaves in tow, sought refuge as well as the survival of their
peculiar institution in Brazil.
Based on extensive research from archives on five continents,
Gerald Horne breaks startling new ground in the history of slavery,
uncovering its global dimensions and the degrees to which its
defenders went to maintain it.
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