Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn is a British historian, a former editor of New Left Review, and emeritus professor in the department of sociology at Essex University. His latest book is The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888.

The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker tell two hundred years of Atlantic history through the everyday struggles of working people. 

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