{"product_id":"the-reckoning-isbn-9781804293416","title":"The Reckoning","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Marcus Rediker, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Slave Ship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA history of 19th century slavery in the US, Brazil and Cuba from a critically acclaimed historian of slavery in the Americas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery—largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows how a fusion of industrial capitalism and transatlantic war and revolution turbo-charged racial oppression and the westwards expansion of the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Blackburn identifies the new territories, new victims and new battle cries of the Second Slavery. He emphasises the role of financial credit in the spread of plantation agriculture, traces the connections between slavery and the US Civil War, and asks why Brazil threw off Portuguese rule whereas Cuba became one of imperial Spain’s final outposts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Second Slavery faced a fearful reckoning in the 1860s and after when the supposedly invincible Slave Power was defied by extraordinary cross-class, international and interracial alliances. Blackburn narrates the abolitionists’ difficult victory over the enslavers, while documenting the racial backlash which brought on Jim Crow and cheated the freedmen and freedwomen of the fruits of their struggle.Introduction: Why the ‘Second Slavery’?\u003cbr\u003e Patterns of the ‘First Slavery’\u003cbr\u003e Slavery’s Survivors: The American South, Brazil, Cuba\u003cbr\u003e   Distinctiveness of the Second Slavery   \u003cbr\u003e   Industry, Finance and Slavery\u003cbr\u003eFortifications of the Second Slavery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Westwards Expansion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI  Pioneers of the Second Slavery\u003cbr\u003e Contested Origins of the United States \u003cbr\u003e The US Constitution and Slavery\u003cbr\u003e An Abolition Moment?\u003cbr\u003e The Northwest Ordinance and Militia Act \u003cbr\u003e From the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase\u003cbr\u003e Birth of the White Man’s Republic \u003cbr\u003e Indian Removal and the German Coast Revolt\u003cbr\u003e The Price of Compromise\u003cbr\u003e The Missouri Controversy \u003cbr\u003e A Choice for Slavery \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII  The Making of the Hispano-Cuban Elite\u003cbr\u003e A Cuban Miracle?\u003cbr\u003e Cuba as a ‘Society with Slaves’\u003cbr\u003e The British in Havana \u003cbr\u003e The Hispano-Cuban Reconquest of Florida\u003cbr\u003e The Great Slave Revolt in St Domingue\u003cbr\u003e The Plantation Surge \u003cbr\u003e Cuba as a Slave Society\u003cbr\u003e The Colonial Pact \u003cbr\u003e A Model Colony?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII Brazil: Independence, Monarchy, Slavery and Citizenship\u003cbr\u003ePatterns of Race and Slavery\u003cbr\u003eMercantilism’s End and a New Slave Trade Boom\u003cbr\u003eStirrings of Independence and Anti-slavery \u003cbr\u003eThe Last Days of Colonial Brazil\u003cbr\u003eAdherence to the Emperor \u003cbr\u003eLiberty, Pacification and Terror in Bahia \u003cbr\u003ePedro’s Setbacks and Abdication \u003cbr\u003eThe Regency and the Slave Trade\u003cbr\u003eBrazil and Backwardness \u003cbr\u003eRomanticism and ‘Natural History’\u003cbr\u003ePower Was Everything\u003cbr\u003eBrazil Ends the Slave Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV  Life and Toil on the Slave Plantation\u003cbr\u003eRacial Capitalism and the Chattel Principle\u003cbr\u003eA Multitude of Tasks\u003cbr\u003e‘Vigilance Without Punishment is an Illusion’\u003cbr\u003eThe Productivity of Gang Labour\u003cbr\u003eThe Slaveholder as Colonist and Potentate \u003cbr\u003eNatural Economy and the Reproduction of the Slave Population\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV  Slaveholder Capitalism, Credit and Westwards Expansion\u003cbr\u003eSlaveholders and Modernity \u003cbr\u003eDimensions of the Plantation Boom\u003cbr\u003eSlavery Away from the Plantations\u003cbr\u003eCredit is King?\u003cbr\u003eMechanization and its Limits\u003cbr\u003eThe Special Case of Sugar Processing\u003cbr\u003eAccounting for Slavery\u003cbr\u003ePlanters Ride the Business Cycle\u003cbr\u003eSlave Dealers Become Sugar Lords\u003cbr\u003eHow Cotton Paid for Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Why the Slaveowners Lost \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. War, Peace and Slavery, 1815-60\u003cbr\u003eMechanics of the Congress System\u003cbr\u003eConservative Reaction and Bourgeois Advance\u003cbr\u003eThe Vienna Congress and the Slave Trade\u003cbr\u003eLatin America, Britain and the Monroe Doctrine \u003cbr\u003eA Congress of the Americas?\u003cbr\u003eThe Fate of Cuba\u003cbr\u003eBrazil, Britain and the Upshot of 1850 \u003cbr\u003eThe Diplomacy of Bullies \u003cbr\u003eFilibustering in Texas and Cuba\u003cbr\u003eMutations of the Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Slavery and the Northern Milieu\u003cbr\u003eThe Appeal and the Liberator \u003cbr\u003eThe American Anti-Slavery Society\u003cbr\u003e‘A Shock as of an Earthquake’: Pro-Slavery Overreaches\u003cbr\u003eSplits over Women’s Rights \u003cbr\u003eThe Whig and Liberty parties \u003cbr\u003eThe Role of Frederick Douglass\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Abolitionism, Free Soil and the Wilmot Proviso \u003cbr\u003eMilitant Anti-slavery\u003cbr\u003eThe Dynamics of the Sectional Conflict\u003cbr\u003eThe Fugitive Slave Law and Underground Railroad \u003cbr\u003eBleeding Kansas \u003cbr\u003eThe Rise of the Republican Party\u003cbr\u003eThe Slave Power and the Dred Scott Decision \u003cbr\u003eJohn Brown’s Body\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Cords of Union Break\u003cbr\u003eThe Meaning of Secession: A Slaveholders’ Revolt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Emancipation and Reconstruction in North America\u003cbr\u003eWar for the Union\u003cbr\u003eNovelty of the US Civil War\u003cbr\u003eLincoln Discovers that Patriotism Is Not Enough\u003cbr\u003eThe Emancipation Proclamation \u003cbr\u003eEmancipation from Above and Below\u003cbr\u003eThe Defeat of the Confederacy\u003cbr\u003ePresidential Reconstruction and the Radical Challenge\u003cbr\u003eThe Radical Programme: Confiscation and Black Suffrage\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in the South\u003cbr\u003eThe North and Radical Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003eBlacks and Whites in the New South \u003cbr\u003eA Second Revolution?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX. The Ending of Slavery in Cuba\u003cbr\u003eCuba and Isabelline Spain    \u003cbr\u003e Puerto Rican Comparisons \u003cbr\u003eTepid Abolitionism of the Cuban Middle Class\u003cbr\u003eSpain’s Politics of Attraction\u003cbr\u003eCrisis of the Isabelline Regime\u003cbr\u003eAbolitionism and the Priorities of Imperialist Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003eThe Moret Law \u003cbr\u003eThe ‘Lottery of Princes’  \u003cbr\u003eThe Republic of Dukes\u003cbr\u003eBourbon Restoration and the Triumph of the Rentier\u003cbr\u003eThe Pact of Zanjón\u003cbr\u003eSlavery Ends at Last\u003cbr\u003eThe United States Seizes Control \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX. Brazil: The Last Emancipation\u003cbr\u003eSlavery’s Place in the Imperial Order \u003cbr\u003eRepercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ban \u003cbr\u003eThe War with Paraguay \u003cbr\u003eCrabwise Advance of Emancipationism \u003cbr\u003eThe Rio Branco Law of 1871\u003cbr\u003eThe Political Economy of Freedom\u003cbr\u003eChurch and State\u003cbr\u003eThe Social Profile of Brazilian Abolitionism\u003cbr\u003eRepublicanism and Positivism\u003cbr\u003eThe Abolitionist Offensive, 1880-4\u003cbr\u003eThe Final Assault on Slavery   \u003cbr\u003eOrdered Freedom\u003cbr\u003e‘A Tattered and Ridiculous Liberty’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Legacies of Slavery and Abolition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\"Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marcus Rediker, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Slave Ship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By concluding his decades-long project on New World slavery, and by drawing the attention of British readers to an often-neglected aspect of that history, Blackburn has fittingly capped a lifetime of scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Taylor, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A comprehensive history of the final years of slavery in the Americas ... \u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e provides important insight into why the United States political and commercial reality is where it's at today.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ron Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A magnificent conclusion to a quartet of books on New World slavery ... in explaining the economics of the Second Slavery [Blackburn] never lets us forget the brutality under-pinning it. It kept me riveted throughout.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chris Bambery, \u003ci\u003eCounterfire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Robin Blackburn, longtime editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e, is probably the foremost Marxist historian of New World slavery working today ... With \u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888\u003c\/i\u003e, the historian provides the long-awaited concluding volume to his chronological trilogy on racial slavery in the New World.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Owen Dowling, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Slavery in America, Brazil, and Cuba relied on capitalist markets, which supplied credit and demand for slave-made goods. \u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e, Robin Blackburn's monumental history, offers a dizzying account of the politics behind this system's rise and fall.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alec Israeli, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While historians have given us accounts of the second slavery before, Blackburn is one of the first to provide us with a comprehensive narrative of what one may call the 'second abolition.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Manisha Sinha, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Towards the end of the 18th century, slavery seemed to be fading as an institution, yet the 19th century saw intense expansions of slavery and new levels of exploitation in Cuba, Brazil, and the Southern United States. Robin Blackburn is the author of several works on the history of Atlantic slavery, and \u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e is clear, concise, and comprehensive—an essential addition to the history shelves and a necessary antidote to historical amnesia.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinary accomplishment, revealing why writing the history of slavery from an Atlantic perspective is not only beneficial but also essential.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Impressive in scope, nuance and detail. \u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCapital \u0026amp; Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Blackburn\u003c\/b\u003e is emeritus professor at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books including \u003ci\u003eThe Making of New World Slavery: 1492-1800\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Crucible, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848\u003c\/i\u003e and an essay on Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx, \u003ci\u003eAn Unfinished Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305148371173,"sku":"NP9781804293416","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804293416.jpg?v=1767741187","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-reckoning-isbn-9781804293416","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}