Journal of Southern History, May 1st, 2008
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. By Gerald Home. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [vi], 341. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3689-0; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3.) This work focuses on "the two great slave empires" of the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil, and their involvement in the African slave trade, covering the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Gerald Horne contends that "U.S. slavery is better understood in hemispheric terms," extending the scope of the issue of slavery beyond the Sou...
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