Capitalism And Slavery

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Capitalism Sf Slavery
Capitalism
Slavery
Eric Williams
s
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Chapel Hill
Copyright, 1944,
by
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY
THE WILLIAM BYRD
PRESS, INC.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
To
Professor Lowell Joseph Ragatz
labors in this field
Whose monumental
may be
amplified and developed
but can never be superseded
PREFACE
THE
PRESENT STUDY is an attempt to place in historical perspective the relationship between early capitalism as exemplified by Great Britain, and the Negro slave trade, Negro slavery and
the general colonial trade of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Every age rewrites history, but particularly ours, which has been forced by events to re-evaluate our conceptions of
history and economic and political development. The progress of the Industrial Revolution has been treated more or less ade-
quately in
many books both
learned and popular, and
its
lessons
are fairly well established in the consciousness of 'the educated class in general and of those people in particular who are re-
sponsible for the creation and guidance of informed opinion. On the other hand, while material has been accumulated and books have been written about the period which preceded the
Industrial Revolution, the world-wide and interrelated nature of the ...

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