Overthrow of colonial slavery 1776-1848 (Record no. 231494)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781844674756
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Classification number 326.80973 BLA
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Personal name Blackburn, Robin
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Title Overthrow of colonial slavery 1776-1848
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Verso
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
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Extent 560p.
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Price amount 9000
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Summary, etc. In 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?<br/><br/>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 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.<br/><br/>The 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.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Slavery
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-08 9000.00   326.80973 BLA 148312 2020-02-08 9000.00 2020-02-08 Books

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