Trouble of the world : slavery and empire in the age of capital /
Zach Sell.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-321) and index.
"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an empire-state while other imperial powers looked to it as a model for their own colonial projects"--