Abstract:This essay examines the connections between the British free trade experiment, the reorganizing of the British Empire and the ultimate suppression of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil in its fully global operative context. While most analyses of the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade focus on bilateral diplomatic relations or national decision-making processes, this essay puts forth a broader analytical framework. It places the end of the transatlantic illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850 within the dynamics of the world-economy. In a broader sense, this essay sheds new light on debates about capitalism and slavery as it reveals nineteenth-century capitalism not as a static background for historical analysis, but rather as a dialectical process moving through a sequence of disruptive commodity market integrations, each of which posed specific economic and political challenges for slaveholders and antislavery actors alike.

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大英帝国和对巴西奴隶贸易的压制：全球历史分析

摘要：本文考察了英国自由贸易实验、大英帝国重组与最终抑制跨大西洋奴隶贸易至巴西在其完全全球运作的背景下之间的联系。虽然对 19 世纪跨大西洋奴隶贸易的大多数分析都集中在双边外交关系或国家决策过程上，但本文提出了一个更广泛的分析框架。它将 1850 年跨大西洋非法奴隶贸易的结束置于世界经济的动态范围之内。从更广泛的意义上讲，本文为关于资本主义和奴隶制的辩论提供了新的思路，因为它揭示了 19 世纪的资本主义不是历史分析的静态背景，而是一个辩证的过程，通过一系列破坏性的商品市场整合，