"Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best."—Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave ShipA history of 19th century slavery in the US, Brazil and Cuba from a critically acclaimed historian of slavery in the Americas The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery—largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows how a fusion of indust