The American Crucible keyword-coronavirus In Search of a Past

In Search of a Past gathers the recollections of the servants who worked at the manor house outside London where Fraser grew up

is sinking into a new kind of barbarism'

but always generously

Brian Barry

The American Crucible keyword-coronavirus In Search of a PastFor over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this peculiar institution and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, in the United States in the 1860s and Brazil in the 1880s. Blackburn argues that the anti slavery movement helped forge the political and social ideals we live by today.