{"title":"Robin Blackburn","description":"Robin Blackburn teaches at the New School in New York and the University of Essex in the UK. He is the author of many books, including The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, Age Shock, Banking on Death, and The American Crucible.","products":[{"product_id":"the-overthrow-of-colonial-slavery-1776-1848-paperback","title":"The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobin 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366820610271,"sku":"9781844674756","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cDN6MEw0dWg1MW5SRXhsaytxQ1FHdz09.webp?v=1789098770"},{"product_id":"the-making-of-new-world-slavery-from-the-baroque-to-the-modern-1492-1800-paperback","title":"The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Making of New World Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought--successfully--to feed upon this commerce and--with markedly less success--to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367553335519,"sku":"9781844676316","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DrgCzN9x5S9781844676316.webp?v=1789109802"},{"product_id":"the-american-crucible-slavery-emancipation-and-human-rights-paperback","title":"The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization, silver mining, plantation agriculture, racial enslavement, colonial rebellion, slave witness and slave resistance. Slave produce raised up empires, fostered new cultures of consumption and financed the breakthrough to an industrial order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Not until the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the 1780s was there the first public challenge to the 'peculiar institution'. An anti-slavery alliance then set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, Britain in 1833-8, the United States in the 1860s, and Cuba and Brazil in the 1880s. In The American Crucible, Robin Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement forged many of the ideals we live by today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'The best treatment of slavery in the western hemisphere I know of. I think it should\u003cbr\u003eestablish itself as a permanent pillar of the literature.' 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