Slavery and Economic Development: Brazil and the United States South in the Nineteenth Century
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- beyond slavery
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 23 (4) , 620-655
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s001041750001358x
Abstract
All history is comparative. The judgments historians make are derived from some explicit or implicit standard of comparison. Thus, when historians describe the antebellum South in the United States as technically backward, rural, nonindustrial, socially retrograde, and paternalistic, they mean to say that it was so in comparison with the North. When historians of nineteenthcentury Brazil describe it in the same terms, they compare it either to the hegemonic capitalist areas of that period, including the United States North, or to Brazil itself at later periods in its history.Keywords
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