The Politics of the Second Slavery

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The creation of new frontiers of slave commodity production and the expansion and intensification of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the southern United States were an integral part of the expansion of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery brings together a group of international scholars to reinterpret pro- and antislavery politics both globally and nationally as part of the forces that were restructuring Atlantic slavery. Individual chapters shed new light on the decolonization and nationalization of slavery in the Americas, the politics of proslavery elites both within particular countries and across the Atlantic region, the abolition of the international slave trade, and slave resistance.
Introduction
Dale W. Tomich

Civilizing America’s Shore: British World-Economic Hegemony and the Abolition of the International Slave Trade (1814–1867)
Dale W. Tomich

International Proslavery: The Politics of the Second Slavery
Rafael Marquese and Tâmis Parron

Spain and the Politics of the Second Slavery, 1808–1868
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

The Return to the casa de vivienda and the barracón: The Terms of Social Action in Slave Plantations
José Antonio Piqueras

The Paths of Freedom: Autonomism and Abolitionism in Cuba, 1878–1886
Luís Miguel García Mora

Passive Revolution and the Politics of Second Slavery in the Brazilian Empire
Ricardo Salles

The Contraband Slave Trade of the Second Slavery
Leonardo Marques

Spaces of Rebellion: Plantations, Farms, and Churches in Demerara and Southampton, Virginia
Anthony E. Kaye

The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Nation-Building: A Comparative Perspective
Enrico Dal Lago

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Latin American
• América del Sur
• 19th century
• Sociology
• South America
• Latin America
• History of the Americas
• Central America
• SS Central America
• Caribbean

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 30 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438462387
• Langue: English

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The Politics of the Second Slavery
FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER
STUDIES IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Series Editor: Richard E. Lee
The Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science will publish works that address theoretical and empirical questions produced by scholars in or through the Fernand Braudel Center or who share its approach and concerns. It specifically seeks to promote works that contribute to the development of the world-systems perspective engaging a holistic and relational vision of the world—the modern world-system—implicit in historical social science, which at once takes into consideration structures (long-term regularities) and change (history). With the intellectual boundaries within the sciences/social sciences/humanities structure collapsing in the work scholars actually do, this series will offer a venue for a wide range of research that confronts the dilemmas of producing relevant accounts of historical processes in the context of the rapidly changing structures of both the social and academic world. The series will include monographs, colloquia, and collections of essays organized around specific themes.
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Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III: Dualism
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New Frontiers of Slavery
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The Politics of the Second Slavery
Dale W. Tomich, editor
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Edited by
Dale W. Tomich

FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER
STUDIES IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Cover: photo of Ingenio Dolores Abreu in Remedios, Cuba taken by Dale W. Tomich.
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Names: Tomich, Dale W., 1946–
Title: The politics of the second slavery / edited by Dale W. Tomich.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016] | Series: Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016005981 (print) | LCCN 2016023474 (e-book) | ISBN 9781438462370 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438462387 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Slavery—America—History—19th century. | Slavery—Political aspects—History—19th century. | Decolonization—America—History—19th century. | Elite (Social sciences)—Political activity—History—19th century. | Slave trade—History—19th century. | Antislavery movements—History—19th century. | Slave insurrections—History—19th century. | America—Race relations—History—19th century. | America—Politics and government—19th century.
Classification: LCC HT1048.P65 2016 (print) | LCC HT1048 (ebook) | DDC 306.3/620973—dc23
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In memory of our colleague and friend Chris Schmidt-Nowara (1966–2015)
CONTENTS
Introduction
Dale W. Tomich
Civilizing America’s Shore: British World-Economic Hegemony and the Abolition of the International Slave Trade (1814–1867)
Dale W. Tomich
International Proslavery: The Politics of the Second Slavery
Rafael Marquese and Tâmis Parron
Spain and the Politics of the Second Slavery, 1808–1868
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
The Return to the casa de vivienda and the barracón : The Terms of Social Action in Slave Plantations
José Antonio Piqueras
The Paths of Freedom: Autonomism and Abolitionism in Cuba, 1878–1886
Luís Miguel García Mora
Passive Revolution and the Politics of Second Slavery in the Brazilian Empire
Ricardo Salles
The Contraband Slave Trade of the Second Slavery
Leonardo Marques
Spaces of Rebellion: Plantations, Farms, and Churches in Demerara and Southampton, Virginia
Anthony E. Kaye
The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Nation-Building: A Comparative Perspective
Enrico Dal Lago
Contributors
Index
Introduction
Dale W. Tomich
The concept of the second slavery calls attention to the remaking of Atlantic slavery as part of the material and economic expansion of the capitalist world-economy during the first part of the nineteenth century. It refers to both the opening of new zones of slave commodity production—most prominently the U.S. cotton zone, the Cuban sugar zone, and the Brazilian coffee zone—and the decline of older zones of slave production. By emphasizing the social and geographic reconfiguration of slave relations within a new world-economic complex of relations and processes, the second slavery breaks with linear conceptions of temporality and causality, particularly with linear conceptions of the relation of slavery and capitalist modernity. Thus, rather than treating slave relations as premodern or static, it calls attention to their heterogeneity and complexity and views them as continually formed by and formative of the world-economic division of labor.
This book seeks to deepen our understanding of the second slavery by exploring its political dimensions. Although studies of the second slavery have tended to focus on the social and material conditions of commodity production and the reconstitution of slave relations, the concept does not apply simply to the economic history of slavery. Rather, the second slavery reconfigured slave formations in the Americas within the context of a global and regional political transformation marked by the growth and consolidation of national states. Consequently, the concept of the second slavery suggests, and indeed requires, reinterpretation of the history of slavery in its political, ideological, and cultural dimensions as well as its social, economic, and environmental aspects. While the world-economy provides the analytical framework for this book, political action and discourse are regarded here as spatially and temporally complex and multidimensional. A discussion of the politics of the second slavery needs to take into account diverse groups of actors and institutions, exploring the ways that they interact across multiple spatial and temporal dimensions. Accordingly, the chapters of this book examine how the politics of slavery and antislavery shaped the Atlantic political order, the politics of empire and relations between metropolis and colony, the political contention between old and new slave zones, and slavery and state formation in the postcolonial Americas, as well as slave resistance.
Even as the topics are diverse, three key claims shape the second-slavery approach that we pursue in these chapters. First, all politics, even apparently local politics, are grounded in the transnational structures forming the world-economy and interstate system. Second, the all-too-often-assumed opposition between liberal antislavery and antiliberal proslavery must be critically reexamined. Finally, the narrative of a presumed linear movement from slavery to freedom needs to be called into question. In contrast to these prevailing assumptions, the second-slavery approach explores the diverse and contradictory ways that both abolitionism and proslavery politics are constituted and reconstituted within the historical processes of capital accumulation, state formation, and the articulation of liberal political and economic conceptions. This perspective allows us to differentiate apparently similar phenomena and determine their specificity within world-historical processes. It results, for example, in a reevaluation of proslavery politics. From this perspective, the chapters in this book reinterpret old questions and raise new ones. They call attention to the diversity and transnational character of the politics of slavery and antislavery. They seek to open a discussion rather than to provide answers.
The volume originates in a conference held at the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University in 2010. Most of the chapters had their beginnings as papers presented at the conference. I would like to thank Richard E. Lee, director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Anthony Kaye, Rafael Marquese, Ricardo Salles, and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, as well as Amy Keough, Kelly Pueschel, and Laura Tomich for their assistance in making this volume possible.
Civilizing America’s Shore
British World-Economic Hegemony and the Abolition of the International Slave Trade (1814–1867)
Dale W. Tomich
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