num_pages: 342
description: This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations slavery spread to nearly every region and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rural and urban elites. This is the first work that systemically surveys slavery in the three nations from comparative perspectives. Chapters focus on slave narratives demography economy culture resistance and rebellions and the causes of abolition.
language: English
title: The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
publisher: Cambridge University Press