American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation

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How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and Brazil In the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to the production of agricultural commodities for t

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"Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations"
"Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations"
"Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association"
"Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award"
"Challenging traditional scholarship, Saba elucidates the US's role in fostering the rise of capitalism throughout the hemisphere in the decades prior to the embrace of imperialism in the late 19th century." * Choice *
"The transition to free and wage labor in Brazil was a complex process with multiple causality, and Sabas book presents a provocative new understanding of this process. He has made a worthy contribution to the understanding of transnational relations between Brazil and the United States in the age of emancipation."---Mariana Muaze, The Journal of the Civil War Era

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Roberto Saba is assistant professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University.