American mirror : the United States and Brazil in the age of emancipation / Roberto Saba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saba, Roberto, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

America in the world ; 44.

America in the world ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Economic aspects--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery--Brazil--History.

Capitalism--United States--History.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Brazil--History.

Slavery--Economic aspects.

Brazil.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In this book, Roberto Saba investigates how the antislavery struggle led Brazil and the United States to cooperate, and how this dynamic collaboration helped establish capitalism and free wage labor as the norm in the Western world. Drawing on overlooked writings from entrepreneurs, scientists, planters, Confederate refugees in Brazil, and journalists, Saba's extensive research reveals that while United States Southerners terrified Brazil with aggressive projects to perpetuate and expand slave labor, reform-minded Brazilians-including slaveholders looked to the American North as a powerful instrument of state- and nation-building. They welcomed advocates from the northern United States who helped them to spread labor-saving machinery, expand large-scale coffee production, advance technical education, diversify economic activities, develop urban centers, and expand transportation infrastructure. Saba shows that the binational collaboration of radical modernizers in the United States and Brazil transformed the political economy of both countries, consolidated wage labor as the dominant production system in the Western hemisphere, and laid the groundwork for the demise of Brazilian slavery and the expansion of American capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I A NEW WORLD UNCHAINED

1. Distant Slave Empires

2. The Enemy of My Enemy

3. A Hemispheric Battle

pt. II THE WORLD THAT FREE LABOR MADE

4. Into the Coffee Kingdom

5. Brave New World

6. The Triumph of Free Labor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780691190747

0691190747

OCLC:

1193066040