The american crucible inevitably embraces areas covered by the author in earlier volumes but even then he is keen to tease out a different story more especially the foundations of modern human rights the result is a book with a significance not simply for historians of slavery. This item the american crucible slavery emancipation and human rights by robin blackburn paperback 2995 only 5 left in stock more on the way ships from and sold by amazoncom. 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. Blackburns latest work the american crucible slavery emancipation and human rights does not simply summarise and update his earlier work but extends his analysis to the rise and decline of second slavery in nineteenth century cuba brazil and the us south