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Robin Blackburn (born 1940) is a British historian, a former editor of New Left Review (1983–1999), and emeritus professor in the department of sociology at Essex University. Background. Blackburn was educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Oxford University and the London School of Economics.
Apr 10, 2024 · Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World. He spoke to Jacobin about the intimate links between the slave systems in the Americas and the origins of capitalism.
Jul 2, 2007 · Robin Blackburn, author of The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776‑1848, spoke to International Socialism on the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. What was your reaction to the official commemoration of the banning of the slave trade, and what do you think was left out of this?
Feb 21, 2024 · Robin Blackburn is the critically acclaimed author of several works on slavery and its abolition. His latest work, The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888, traces the “Second Slavery” that surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil after the Age of Revolution (1776–1848) destroyed the main slave reg
How was slavery defeated in the Americas? In this interview Robin Blackburn discusses the key ideas and arguments in his new work, The Reckoning: From the Se...
Feb 9, 2024 · Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning is a remarkable history of the rise and fall of plantation slavery in its three nineteenth-century strongholds: the US South, Cuba and Brazil. In 1800 there were 2.3 million slaves in the Americas; by 1860 there were 6 million.
Robin Blackburn has 54 books on Goodreads with 3696 ratings. Robin Blackburn’s most popular book is The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to ...
Nov 13, 2012 · Review Essay. Complicating the Big Picture: Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible. Peter Kolchin. Pages 611-618 | Published online: 13 Nov 2012. Cite this article. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2012.727578. Full Article. Figures & data. Citations. Metrics. Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. Click to increase image size. Notes.
Blackburn expands upon this counterfactual world without racial slavery in his long chapter on ‘‘Alternative to Slavery?’’, asking about a possible free labor America, without, however, convincingly specifying how it would have been done.
The Reckoning is Robin Blackburn’s compelling and authoritative account. The Age of Revolution (1776–1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a ‘Second Slavery’ surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a system of financial credit that leveraged the value of the slaves.
