The Politics of the Second Slavery
Publisher: SUNY Press; State University of New York Press
Published: Dec 30, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781438462370
Description: "Sheds new light on both pro- and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas. The creation of new frontiers of slave commodity production and the expansion and intensification of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the southern United States were an integral part of the expansion of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery brings together a group of international scholars to reinterpret pro- and antislavery politics both globally and nationally as part of the forces that were restructuring Atlantic slavery. Individual chapters shed new light on the decolonization and nationalization of slavery in the Americas, the politics of proslavery elites both within particular countries and across the Atlantic region, the abolition of the international slave trade, and slave resistance"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Source title: The Politics of the Second Slavery (SUNY Series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science)