The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization; silver mining; plantation agriculture; racial enslavement; colonial rebellion; slave witness and slave resistance. Slave produce raised up empires; fostered new cultures of consumption and financed the breakthrough to an industrial order. Not until the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the 1780s was there the first public challenge to the ‘peculiar institution’. An anti-slavery alliance then set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804; Britain in 1833–8; the United States in the 1860s; and Cuba and Brazil in the 1880s. In The American Crucible; Robin Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement forged many of the ideals we live by today.‘The best treatment of slavery in the western hemisphere I know of. I think it shouldestablish itself as a permanent pillar of the literature.’ Eric Hobsbawm
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Papers from a USAF Symposium on the Korean War!By Mike O'ConnorIn June 2000; the Air Force held a 50th anniversary symposium on the Korean War. The symposium consisted of three panels: air dominance; air-to-ground ops and the legacy of the Korean War. The proceedings were edited and; in 2006; published by the Air Force History and Museum Program as SILVER WINGS; GOLDEN VALOR: THE USAF REMEMBERS KOREA. It's a mixed bag at best.SILVER WINGS; GOLDEN VALOR consists of six chapters book-ended by comments by noted historian Richard Hallion. Included in the book are chapters on "My Memories of the Korean War" by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell; "Learning from the Korean War" by General Mike Ryan; "The Air Force; Korea and Kosovo: Past as Prologue" by SecAF F. W. Peters; panel discussions on "Air Pressure: Air-to-Ground Operations in Korea" and " Air Dominance: The Essential Achievement;" etc.Generally the most enjoyable sections of the book were the panel discussions since they featured Korean War combat vets such as Hal Fischer; Mike DeArmond and Russ Dougherty sharing their experiences and opinions. Other chapters were dry or; in the case of Nighthorse Campbell; rather inconsequential.So; take SILVER WINGS; GOLDEN VALOR for what it's worth. There is some some interesting material there but you will have to wade through other less-inspiring verbage. Recommended with reservations.
