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The Making of New World Slavery - From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Making of New World Slavery - From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Verso World History
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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 of slaves in the
colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the
English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged
from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of
individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of
slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to
modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both
proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic
trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a
decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the
rise of the West. The Verso World History Series This series
provides attractive new editions of classic works of history,
making landmark texts available to a new generation of readers.
Covering a timespan stretching from Ancient Greece and Rome to the
twentieth century, and with a global geographical range, the series
will also include thematic volumes providing insights into such
topics as the spread of print cultures and the history of money.
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