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Trouble of the World - Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital (Paperback)
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Trouble of the World - Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital (Paperback)
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In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by
relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of
commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's
significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global
scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an
empire-state while other imperial powers looked to it as a model
for their own colonial projects. The narrative follows British
factory owners and southern plantation owners as they worked to
incorporate various kinds of laborers into global circuits of
production and consumption, bringing enslaved African Americans,
colonial subjects, Indigenous people, and factory workers together.
Looking to the rough edges of empire, Sell narrates the struggles
of overseers hired away from U.S. plantations to introduce rice and
cotton production across colonial India, the efforts of investors
in plantations to bring formerly enslaved people and U.S.
slaveholders to British Honduras, and more. What emerges is a tale
of a system too powerful and too profitable to end, even after
emancipation; it is the story of how slavery's influence survived
emancipation, infusing empire and capitalism to this day.
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