The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean

Daniel Rood's The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery looks into the transformations of slavery in the New World—especially in Cuba, Brazil, and the US South—following the Haitian Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the Industrial Revolution, and the gradual antislavery turn of the British Empire. It...

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Published inHispanic American Historical Review Vol. 100; no. 3; pp. 571 - 573
Main Author Domingues da Silva, Daniel B.
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Durham Duke University Press 01.08.2020
Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects
Capitalism
Dissolution
History
Latin American History
Latin American Studies
Race
Slavery
Technology
Transformation
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Summary:Daniel Rood's The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery looks into the transformations of slavery in the New World—especially in Cuba, Brazil, and the US South—following the Haitian Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the Industrial Revolution, and the gradual antislavery turn of the British Empire. It argues that the institution “did not simply drift toward dissolution” but rather “migrated to new places and incorporated new kinds of industrial technologies” (p. 2). This picture accords well with the view of scholars who describe such a transformation as the second slavery. Responding to a new moment in the history of world capitalism, plantation experts played a key role in this process, developing technologies suitable to the tropical environments of the greater Caribbean and the southern Atlantic. However, the book also stresses the contributions that slaves and freed people made to the development of these technologies, which revolutionized...
ISSN:0018-2168
1527-1900
DOI:10.1215/00182168-8350137