Slavery and capitalism : a new Marxist history /

"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, plante...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McNally, David, 1953- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Slavery > Economic aspects. Slave labor > History. Plantations > History. Marxian historiography. Esclaves > Travail > Histoire. Plantations > Histoire. Historiographie marxiste. HISTORY / United States / General Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: whisperings of freedom
Planting and profit : Richard Ligon and the Birth of capitalist slavery
George Washington : Land Grabber, Slave Hunter, Bourgeois Planter
"Without a servant to make his bed" : labor and race in colonial capitalism
Living labor and planter profits
The wages of slavery
Steal away: capital on legs
Bonded proletarians
Life-making and enslaved reproduction
Cultures of freedom
Empires of capital, worlds of revolt
Concluding thoughts : ghostly hauntings, dreams of freedom.