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The Making of New World Slavery
Robin Blackburn
其他書名
From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800
出版Verso Books, 2010-08-02
主題History / WorldSocial Science / SlaveryPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
ISBN18446763159781844676316
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zupOEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 markedly less success—to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states.

Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.