Revolução Industrial e circuitos mercantis globais: a crise da escravidão no Império britânico
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9036.i132p185-212Keywords:
Capitalism, Slavery, Industrial Revolution, Mercantile flowsAbstract
Reviewing the debate on capitalism and slavery, this article emphasizes the material relationship between the Industrial Revolution and the crisis of black slavery in the British Empire from both critical theory and world-system perspectives. After suggesting that the debate made capital invisible as a category of historical analysis, I argue that the Industrial Revolution set in motion a process of expanding mercantile flows over the Atlantic and Indo Pacific that established strained relationships with slave mercantile frontiers within and outside the British Empire. These relations became a powerful material mediation between the black slavery crisis in the West Indies, the rise of slavery in the United States, Cuba, Brazil, and the advance of neoimperialism in the East.
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