The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights

by Robin Blackburn

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For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. The stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this "peculiar institution" and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, in the United States in the 1860s, and Brazil in the 1880s. Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement helped forge the political and social ideals we live by today.
  • ISBN10 1781681066
  • ISBN13 9781781681060
  • Publish Date 30 July 2013 (first published 5 May 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Verso Books