The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 by Robin Blackburn

The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

Robin Blackburn

602 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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The Making of New World Slavery 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 mark...

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