TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blackburn, Robin.
TI  -  The American crucible: slavery, emancipation and human rights 
SN  - 9781844675692
U1  -  306.3/62097  22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London,  New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Europe
KW  -  Colonies
KW  -  America
KW  - Slavery
KW  -  History
KW  - Slaves
KW  -  Emancipation
KW  -  Economic aspects
KW  - Human rights
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : slavery and the West -- Empires and plantations. The Spanish conquest: destruction, enslavement and the Baroque -- Mercantil e empire and the slave plantation: Brazil leads, the Dutch, English and French refine the formula -- Plantation hierarchy, social order and th e Atlantic system  -- The subversive boom. Slavery and industrializatio n -- Black aspirations and the 'Picaresque Proletariat' -- The planters back colonial revolt -- From the critique of slavery to the abolitioni st movement -- The Haitian pivot. Haitians claim the rights of man -- R esults and prospects I: slave-trade abolition -- Results and prospects II: Latin America -- The age of abolition. Abolitionism advances, but s lavery is resurgent -- Anti-slavery: its scope, character and appeal -- The keys to emancipation -- The spiral path: ambiguous victories, cont ested legacies
N2  - A history of the rise and abolition of slavery in the Americas cover s such topics as the plantation revolution of the seventeenth century, the emergence of anti-slavery thought, and the contributions of such fi gures as Thomas Paine and Frederick Douglass
ER  -