It takes the average reader 10 hours and 23 minutes to read The Making of New World Slavery by Robin Blackburn
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The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought—successfully—to feed upon this commerce and—with markedly less success—to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states....
The Making of New World Slavery by Robin Blackburn is 614 pages long, and a total of 155,956 words.
This makes it 207% the length of the average book. It also has 191% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 12 minutes to read The Making of New World Slavery aloud.
The Making of New World Slavery is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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