Deepest South

The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade

Автор: Gerald Horne

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relatio...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Gerald Horne

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2007

страници

341

EAN

9780814736890

ISBN

0814736890

Enbook ID

04931460

Издател

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

546

Размери

153 x 229 x 21

Пълно описание

During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. "The Deepest South" tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals actively participated in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which today has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself. Proslavery Americans began to accelerate their presence in Brazil in the 1830s, creating alliances there - sometimes friendly, often contentious - with Portuguese, Spanish, British, and other foreign slave traders to buy, sell, and transport African slaves. Spokesmen of the Slave South drew up ambitious plans to seize the Amazon and develop this region by deporting enslaved African-Americans there to toil. When the South seceded from the Union, it received significant support from Brazil, which correctly assumed that a Confederate defeat would be a mortal blow to slavery south of the border. After the Civil War, many Confederates, with slaves in tow, sought refuge as well as the survival of their peculiar institution in Brazil. Based on extensive research from archives on five continents, Gerald Horne breaks startling new ground in the history of slavery, uncovering its global dimensions and the degrees to which its defenders went to maintain it.

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