The hardback version of this book won the Deutscher Memorial Award in 1997.
Robin Blackburn teaches at the University of Essex and is an editor at New Left Review. He is the author of many books, including The American Crucible, The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, Age Shock and Banking on Death.
Here is what the reviewers wrote about Robin Blackburn's companion study The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848: "One of the finest studies of slavery and abolition to appear in many years." - Eric Foner, Dissent "The first historian since Eric Williams to present a comprehensive interpretation. But Blackburn, profiting from and admirably synthesising the vast scholarship produced since Capitalism and Slavery (1944) is far less rigid and doctrinaire, much more attuned to the workings of politics." - David Briton David, New York Review "An incisive synthesis of developments in North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. Blackburn's book is bold and original." - Richard Dunn, Times Literary Supplement
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