The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 Betty Riegel and up to alpine tundra

and up to alpine tundra with fantastic views of the rugged Gore Range

ISBN10: 0664257852

featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title

ISBN13: 9781539446460

The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 Betty Riegel and up to alpine tundraThe Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought successfully to feed upon this commerce and with markedly less success to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the