Slavery and Capitalism - A New Marxist History

Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History



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English | 2025 | ISBN: 1460762266 | 100 pages | True EPUB | 1.32 MB

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery.

Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature, planter records and diaries, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim for enslaved labor in the plantation system as capitalist commodity production.