How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to the production of agricultural commodities for t "[American Mirror] is a signal contribution to an important literature . . . [and] written by an erudite and graceful writer. . . . The book has the ultimate merit of inducing readers to think more deeply about these settler colonial regimes that were constructed in recent centuries at enormous costs in this hemisphere."---Gerald Horne, Diplomatic History