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"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an empire-state while other imperial powers looked to it as a model for their own colonial projects."

Abstract
Historians of the United States have often described slavery as guided by the chattel principle. Yet in Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, "No matter how degraded the factory hand, he is not real estate." This article builds upon Du Bois's description of slavery's real estate basis and considers real estate as central to both slavery and territorial expansion in the nineteenth-century United States. Real estate formed the basis of slaveholder family stability and also enabled the intergenerational transfer of wealth. The article also considers the continuing influence of real estate after black emancipation. Real estate enabled post-slavery black dispossession and also facilitated the continuation of the United States as a settler empire.

AbstractThis article examines transnational connections between African American emancipation in the United States and Chinese and Indian indenture within the British Empire. In an era of social upheaval and capitalist crisis, planters and colonial officials envisioned coolies as a source of uninterrupted plantation labor. This vision was often bound to the conditions of African American emancipation. In British Honduras, colonial officials sought to bring emancipated African Americans to the colony as labor for sugar plantations. When this project failed, interest turned toward indentured Chinese labor managed by white planters from the U.S. South. In India's North-Western Provinces, the outbreak of famine came to be seen as a "kindred distress" to the crisis in Lancashire's textile industry. Unemployed English factory workers were seen as suffering from famine due to the scarcity of slave-produced cotton, just as colonial subjects suffered from scarcity of food. While some weavers in the North-Western Provinces were taken into the coolie trade, the emigration of unemployed Lancashire weavers was looked to as a possible alternative to indenture. Drawing upon archives in Australia, Belize, Britain, India, and the United States, this article explores connections between seemingly disparate histories. By focusing upon their interrelation, this article locates the formation of crisis not in raw materials, but rather within a transnational struggle over racialized labor exploitation, or what W.E.B. Du Bois called the "dark and vast sea of human labor."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human -- PART I OPENINGS -- Chapter one. The Illumination of Blackness -- Chapter two. Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire -- Chapter three. Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology -- Chapter four. Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness -- PART II GROUNDINGS -- Chapter Five. Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter six. Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability -- Chapter seven. "Not to Be Slaves of Others": Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea -- PART III CAPTIVITIES -- Chapter eight. "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer: Chattel/ Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity -- Chapter nine. Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism -- Chapter ten. Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery -- Chapter eleven. Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah -- PART IV UNSETTLINGS -- Chapter twelve. On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic -- Chapter thirteen. Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other -- Chapter fourteen. Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism -- Chapter fifteen. Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation -- References -- Contributors -- Index