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The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade.(Book review)

Gerald Horne, The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. 341. Cloth $75.00. Paper $24.00.

Although antebellum southern slavery was distinct from other modern manifestations of enslavement, even the most parochial slaveholders understood that their "peculiar institution" was part of an international economic and labor system. Similarly, the movement to abolish slavery that grew apace in the United States during the 1830s was one aspect of a wider, international reform impulse. Gerald Horne is appropriately mindful of that second transnational imperative, particularly insofar as radical ...

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