The Making of New World Slavery. From the Baroque to the modern, 1492-1800

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Reprinted. Scholarly work. Chapters include: Part 1 - 'The selection of new world slavery: 'The old world background to new world slavery; 'The first phase - Portugal and Africa'; 'Slavery and Spanish America'; 'The rise of Brazilian sugar'; 'The Dutch War for Brazil and Africa'; 'The making of English colonial slavery'; 'The construction of the French colonial system'; 'Racial slavery and the rise of the plantation'; Part 2 - 'Slavery and accumulation'; 'Colonial slavery and the eighteenth century boom'; 'The Sugar Islands'; 'Slavery on the mainland'; 'New world slavery - primitive accumulation and British industrialization'