The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn

The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848

Verso World History (Hardcover)

Robin Blackburn

560 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of exotic products and popular pleasures. Some two and half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ...

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