'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera
Arguing that the slave trade was at the
heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944
study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has
influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the
rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the
Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising
an economic decision.
Most significantly, he showed how slavery
was only abolished when it ceased to become financially viable,
exploding the myth of emancipation as a mark of Britain's moral
progress. 'Its thesis is a starting point for a new generation of
scholarship' New Yorker
Capitalism and Slavery - Eric Williams
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