ABSTRACT
The official end of the slave trade and slavery in the Western world was an aspect of the modernization, indeed modernity of this world, in the nineteenth century. The end of slavery did not completely transform labor relations or indeed racial politics in their broadest sense, whether in Britain's Caribbean colonies, or in other former slave societies such as Haiti and Brazil. The end of the transatlantic slave trade also led to the development of plantation economies in parts of Atlantic Africa, particularly the large Portuguese colony of Angola. The role of anti-slavery in British imperialism thus inherently reflected and entailed racism and coercion. There was a major increase in state slavery during the twentieth century, notably in the Soviet Union, the Nazi Empire, and North Korea. The Jewish labor use requires analysis because some of the popular modern discussion of the slave trade presents it as analogous to the Holocaust.
