ISBN:
9780691205359
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (392 p.)
,
17 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map
Edition:
2021
Series Statement:
America in the World 37
DDC:
306.3620973
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Sklaverei
;
Abolitionismus
;
Kapitalismus
;
Capitalism History
;
Capitalism History
;
Slavery Economic aspects
;
History
;
Slavery History
;
Slavery History
;
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
;
USA
;
Brasilien
;
Agrarian Crossings
;
Alabama in Africa
;
Andrew Zimmerman
;
Between Two Empires
;
Brazilian liberals
;
Civil War
;
Eiichiro Azuma
;
Empire of Cotton
;
Gilded Age
;
Hendrick Kraay
;
John Greenleaf Whittier
;
Julie Greene
;
Louis Agassiz
;
Oeste Paulista
;
Paraguayan War
;
Protestant missionaries
;
Reconstruction
;
Sven Beckert
;
Teresa Cribelli
;
The Canal Builders
;
Tore Olsson
;
United States
;
agriculture
;
anti-British
;
anti-Confederate
;
coffee
;
expansionism
;
foreign relations
;
free labor
;
modernization
;
proslavery
;
science
;
slaveholders
;
transnational history
;
wage labor
Abstract:
How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to the production of agricultural commodities for the global market, and governing elites feared the system’s demise would ruin their countries. Yet, when slavery ended in the United States and Brazil, in 1865 and 1888 respectively, what resulted was immediate and continuous economic progress. In American Mirror, Roberto Saba investigates how American and Brazilian reformers worked together to ensure that slave emancipation would advance the interests of capital.Saba explores the methods through which antislavery reformers fostered capitalist development in a transnational context. From the 1850s to the 1880s, this coalition of Americans and Brazilians—which included diplomats, engineers, entrepreneurs, journalists, merchants, missionaries, planters, politicians, scientists, and students, among others—consolidated wage labor as the dominant production system in their countries. These reformers were not romantic humanitarians, but cosmopolitan modernizers who worked together to promote labor-saving machinery, new transportation technology, scientific management, and technical education. They successfully used such innovations to improve production and increase trade.Challenging commonly held ideas about slavery and its demise in the Western Hemisphere, American Mirror illustrates the crucial role of slave emancipation in the making of capitalism.
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021)
DOI:
10.1515/9780691205359
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691205359
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691205359
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