Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism
▻http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/04/slavery-the-capital-that-made-capitalism
Racialized chattel slaves were the capital that made capitalism. While most theories of capitalism set slavery apart, as something utterly distinct, because under slavery, workers do not labor for a wage, new historical research reveals that for centuries, a single economic system encompassed both the plantation and the factory.
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Des livres à lire :
– Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
– Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown
– Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood
– Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
– The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
– Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery by A. Farrow, J. Lang, and J. Frank
