The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848Verso, 1988 - 560 pages Robin 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 Btazil; 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. -- |
Table des matières
Colonial Slavery in the New World c 1770 | 1 |
The Origins of AntiSlavery | 33 |
Slavery and Empire | 67 |
Slavery and the American Revolution | 109 |
British Abolitionism and the Backlash of the 1790s | 131 |
178993 | 161 |
Revolutionary Emancipationism and the Birth of Haiti | 213 |
The United States | 265 |
180314 | 293 |
Independence and Emancipation | 331 |
the Abolitionist Impasse | 381 |
182338 | 419 |
French Restoration Slavery and 1848 | 473 |
Results and Prospects | 517 |
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