From Slavery to Freedom : Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery

The entries in this volume focus upon the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave system in comparative perspective. The subjects range from the rise of the slave trade in early modern Europe to a comparison of slave trade and the Holocaust of the twentieth century, dealing with both the history and historiography of slavery and abolition. They include essays on British, French, Dutch, and Brazilian abolition, as well as essays on the historiography of slavery and abolition since the publication of Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery more than fifty years ago. Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Front Matter....Pages 1-3 Capitalism and Abolition: Values and Forces in Britain, 1783–1814 (1976)....Pages 5-34 Two Variants of Anti-Slavery: Religious Organization and Social Mobilization in Britain and France, 1780–1870 (1980)....Pages 35-56 Public Opinion and the Destruction of British Colonial Slavery (1982)....Pages 57-86 The Decline Thesis of British Slavery since Econocide (1986)....Pages 87-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-118 Brazilian Abolition in Comparative Perspective (1988)....Pages 119-157 British Way, French Way: Opinion Building and Revolution in the Second French Slave Emancipation (1991)....Pages 158-195 The Long Goodbye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective (1994)....Pages 196-234 Servile Insurrection and John Brown’s Body in Europe (1993)....Pages 235-272 Front Matter....Pages 273-274 The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism (1990)....Pages 275-311 The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis (1996)....Pages 312-338 The Role of Jews in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1993)....Pages 339-354 Eric Williams: British Capitalism and British Slavery (1987)....Pages 355-378 Capitalism and Slavery after Fifty Years (1997)....Pages 379-398 Free Labor vs Slave Labor: The British and Caribbean Cases (1999)....Pages 399-443 Back Matter....Pages 445-454 "Spanning more than two decades of debate on slavery and antislavery, this provocative volume by leading historian Seymour Drescher provides an in-depth comparative analysis of the transatlantic slave trade and abolition movements of nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas, and their ongoing impact on twentieth-century politics and race relations."--Jacket