| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. By Gerald Horne. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. 341 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3689-0.)

The United States and Brazil dominated slavery in the Americas in the mid-nineteenth century. Each had reached its position as a dominant slave power by different routes. The United States had done so initially under British rule, through the cultivation of tobacco, rice, and ultimately cotton, and—though an importer of enslaved African labor—largely through the natural reproduction of captive people. Brazil, by contrast, was a former colony of Portugal, depended heavily on imported captive labor from the sixteenth century onward, and largely employed those captives in cultivating sugar and, by the nineteenth century, coffee. Despite their different historical trajectories as slave powers, Gerald Horne argues, the two nations became closely intertwined in the promotion and defense of slavery internationally in the nineteenth century in the face of persistent British efforts to suppress the African slave trade.

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