Capitalism and SlaveryWilliams Eric
Capitalism and Slavery
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I like this dumb idea, how about 3 different books Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams - what evil really looks like Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail - the "theory" of a good life I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - the "practice" of a good life I Know Why…
on “Texas lawmaker wants to know what books on race, sexuality are in schools” ↗Classic text from 1944 on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_and_Slavery > The book, besides dealing with a passage of economic history, was furthermore a frontal attack on the idea that moral and humanitarian motives were key in the victory of British abolitionism. It was…
on “Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution [pdf]” ↗>Why do you think the country is richer because of slavery? There are plenty of books on this subject, I think "Capitalism and Slavery" goes into this well, but it's pretty well documented. Slavery was a huge part of the southern economy, it wasn't just a few individual slaveholders getting rich; it was embedded in the very way of life…
on “Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned” ↗…difficult, but surely you'd agree that the Triangle Trade was important to the economies that actually ended up leading the Industrial Revolution. Although I have not read it, I think Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery is an influential work well known for forcefully arguing for a link between the eponymous phenomena (of course not everyone agrees with its claims).
on “'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom” ↗…"fiercely debated", you say "wildly incorrect". Do you actually read the sources you link to? "One important reason for this focus on Britain was no doubt the publication of Eric Williams’ much-cited book Capitalism and slavery, first published in 1944." Someone actually wrote a whole book about it! That's how deep the subject is. I remember watching a 1 hour lecture on you tube, where this professor argued that the trans-Atlantic…
on “An East African Kingdom Changed T Roosevelt and the Course of American Democracy” ↗…eventually, at the time of the civil war, a net negative, even not accounting for costs of the war, and that afterwards the economy grew faster without that deadweight. (The book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_and_Slavery covers this.) I'm sure there were people arguing at the time of abolition that it was a necessary evil too though: > Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had…
on “Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? (2013)” ↗