In his latest formidable synthesis, The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888, Blackburn recounts the long undoing of the 'second slavery' in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil.
Blackburn's earlier work tied plantation slavery's rise to changes in commerce in early modern Europe, showing that enslavement is central to modern economic and ideological structures.
Charting this history from the early 19th century to the American Civil War, Blackburn examines how the last slave societies finally got rid of enslavement through grassroots activism and state intervention.
For Blackburn, the histories of enslavement and emancipation are pivotal in understanding our modern world and its economies, as well as its ideological preoccupations.
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