The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall
of the Second Slavery - largescale plantation slavery in
nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn
shows how a fusion of industrial capitalism and transatlantic war
and revolution turbo-charged racial oppression and the westwards
expansion of the United States. Blackburn identifies the new
territories, new victims and new battle cries of the Second
Slavery. He emphasises the role of financial credit in the spread
of plantation agriculture, traces the connections between slavery
and the US Civil War, and asks why Brazil threw off Portuguese rule
whereas Cuba became one of imperial Spain's final outposts. The
Second Slavery faced a fearful reckoning in the 1860s and after
when the supposedly invincible Slave Power was defied by
extraordinary cross-class, international and interracial alliances.
Blackburn narrates the abolitionists' difficult victory over the
enslavers, while documenting the racial backlash which brought on
Jim Crow and cheated the freedmen and freedwomen of the fruits of
their struggle."
General
| Imprint: |
Verso Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
February 2024 |
| Authors: |
Robin Blackburn
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
672 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80429-341-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-80429-341-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781804293416 |
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