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The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery - 1776-1848 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery - 1776-1848 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Verso World History
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In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing
from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two
and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies,
toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo
craved by Europeans. By 1848 the major systems of colonial slavery
had been swept away either by independence movements, slave
revolts, abolitionists or some combination of all three. How did
this happen? Robin Blackburn's history captures the complexity of a
revolutionary age in a compelling narrative. In some cases colonial
rule fell while slavery flourished, as happened in the South of the
United States and in Brazil; elsewhere slavery ended but colonial
rule remained, as in the British West Indies and French Windwards.
But in French St. Domingue, the future Haiti, and in Spanish South
and Central America both colonialism and slavery were defeated.
This story of slave liberation and American independence highlights
the pivotal role of the "first emancipation" in the French Antilles
in the 1790s, the parallel actions of slave resistance and
metropolitan abolitionism, and the contradictory implications of
slaveholder patriotism. The dramatic events of this epoch are
examined from an unexpected vantage point, showing how the torch of
anti-slavery passed from the medieval communes to dissident
Quakers, from African maroons to radical pirates, from Granville
Sharp and Ottabah Cuguano to Toussaint L'Ouverture, from the black
Jacobins to the Liberators of South America, and from the African
Baptists in Jamaica to the Revolutionaries of 1848 in Europe and
the Caribbean.
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