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Capitalism and Slavery Paperback – October 14, 1994
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In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.
- Print length307 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 14, 1994
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.77 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100807844888
- ISBN-13978-0807844885
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- Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press; unknown edition (October 14, 1994)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 307 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0807844888
- ISBN-13 : 978-0807844885
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.77 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #937,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #717 in Political Economy
- #1,420 in Economic Conditions (Books)
- #1,488 in European Politics Books
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About the author
Eric E. Williams was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
Williams’ controversial book on the abolition and emancipation of British West Indian slavery, Capitalism and Slavery (1944), reframed the historiography of the British trans-Atlantic slave trade, and established the contribution of Caribbean slavery to the development of Britain.
Published in nine languages – including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish and Korean, a tenth, Dutch, is in process. Editions of the Portuguese, French and Spanish translations are once again available.
Major publications include: The Negro in the Caribbean, History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago, British Historians and the West Indies, From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969. Several of these have been translated into Chinese and Japanese.
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I am thrilled to say that this book lays out the work in an accessible manner and pulls no punches regarding the characters involved. There is no sugar coating of history here. And considering that this work was produced when Trinidad, where the author is from and eventually became Prime Minister of, was very much still a British colony, it is pleasing to see the foundations of the man he would become.
My only complaint about this book is that the format of this particularly text is bad. I will not remove a star for something that is obviously not the author’s fault.
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Williams contribution to the literature of this transformation is to focus on the role of the slave trade. On the one hand, it provided a source of raw materials (human beings) which could be sold at a profit by traders, and then used to produce even more wealth by the buyers (slaveholders). This double accumulation of wealth went a long way toward allowing a few very wealthy people to accumulate capital, which coul;d then be invested in things like machinery.
At the same time, the slave trade provided an economic foundation for a large scale international trading network (the famous molasses, slave, rum triangle, later includeing cotton). Without this international network of shippers and merchants, the English (and later New England) cotton mills would not have had anywhere to sell their manufactured product (cotton cloth), nor a cheap source of cotton to use as raw materials.
Williams' ground breaking contirbution was to link all of this together, and argue that without the immoral slave trade, the industrial revolution, and thus capitalism as we know it, would not have happened. The inescapable conclusion is that since much of modern wealth was founded on slavery, some form of reparations is warranted.
This competition was being rocked by disruptive technologies of the Industrial Revolution while new economic and
political theories were being debated, again, not unlike today.
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