A world transformed : slavery in the Americas and the origins of global power / James Walvin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walvin, James, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--America--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--America--History.

Slavery--Economic aspects--History.

Slave trade--History.

Slave trade.

Transatlantic slave trade.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can be fully understood only by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the latest modern scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we know. Celebrated historian James Walvin tells a global story that covers everything from the capitalist economy, labor, and the environment, to social culture and ideas of family, beauty, and taste. This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world. The enforced transportation and labor of millions of Africans became a massive social and economic force, catalyzing the rapid development of multiple new and enormous trading systems with profound global consequences. The labor and products of enslaved people changed the consumption habits of millions--in India and Asia, Europe and Africa, in colonized and Indigenous American societies. Across time, slavery shaped many of the dominant features of Western taste: items and habits or rare and costly luxuries, some of which might seem, at first glance, utterly removed from the horrific reality of slavery. A World Transformed traces the global impacts of slavery over centuries, far beyond legal or historical endpoints, confirming that the world created by slave labor lives on today"-- From publisher's website.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Trade

1. The Scattering of People

2. Spanish Origins

3. Spain and the Other Slavery

4. Slavery, Sugar and Power

pt. Two People and Cargoes

5. Bound for Africa: Cargoes

6. The Dead

pt. Three Internal Trades

7. Upheavals

8. Brazil's Internal Slave Trade

9. The Domestic US Slave Trade

pt. Four Managing Slavery

10. A World of Paper: Accounting for Slavery

11. Managing Slavery

12. Brute Force

13. Working

pt. Five Demanding Freedom

14. Finding a Voice

15. Demanding Freedom

pt. Six A World Transformed

16. Beauty and the Beast

17. A World Transformed

18. Slavery Matters.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Robinson"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-366) and index

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780520386242

0520386248

OCLC:

1303219604