Slavery and Capitalism

A New Marxist History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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. Weaving together history, political economy, and radical abolitionism, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class. Unlike those scholars who insist that enslaved people were too sensible to set their sights on liberty, he highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom and reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-02
Mått:230 x 30 x 160 mm
Vikt:710 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520415973

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David McNally is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, where he directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. He is the author of seven previous books and more than sixty scholarly articles.

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“Historical works like McNally’s have never been more necessary.”

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ContentsIntroduction: Whisperings of FreedomPart One. The Planter, The President, and the Political Economist: Foundations of Capitalist Slavery1. Planting and Profit: Richard Ligon and the Birth of Capitalist Slavery2. George Washington: Land Grabber, Slave Hunter, Bourgeois Planter3. "Without a Servant to Make His Bed": Labor and Race in Colonial CapitalismPart Two. The Political Economy of the Plantation System4. Living Labor and Planter Profits5. The Wages of Slavery6. Steal Away: Capital on LegsPart Three. The Making of a Chattel Proletariat7. Bonded Proletarians8. Life-Making and Enslaved Reproduction9. Cultures of Freedom10. Empires of Capital, Worlds of RevoltConcluding Thoughts: Ghostly Hauntings, Dreams of FreedomAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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