Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery / Seymour Drescher.
Drescher, Seymour.
2009
HT861 .D74 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery / Seymour Drescher.
Author Drescher, Seymour.
ISBN 9780521841023
052184102X
9780521600859 (pbk.)
0521600855 (pbk.)
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description xi, 471 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HT861 .D74 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3/6209
Summary In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Extension
A perennial institution
Expanding slavery
Extension and tension
Crisis
Border skirmishes
Age of the American Revolution, 1770s-1820s
Franco-American Revolutions, 1780s-1820s
Latin American Revolutions, 1810s-1820s
Abolitionism without revolution: Great Britain, 1770s-1820s
Contraction
British emancipation
From colonial emancipation to global abolition
The end of slavery in Anglo-America
Abolishing New World slavery: Latin America
Emancipation in the Old World, 1880s-1920s
Reversion
Reversion in Europe
Cycles actual and counterfactual.

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