Capitalism and slavery fifty years later Eric Eustace Williams--a reassessment of the man and his work
by Heather Cateau
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Eric Williams' seminal work Capitalism and Slavery has received continued reassessment since publication in 1944. It must be considered one of the premier historical works of our time. Its major themes - the origins of slavery; the profitability of the slave trade and slavery; the decline of the British West Indies; and the economic motivation for emancipation - are still hotly debated. This book continues this process, however, it also explores less developed themes as well as new show more developments in Caribbean historiography. It also seeks to shed some insight on the issues that influenced Eric Williams and informed the purpose with which he wrote history. This reassessment celebrates a very important landmark in the book's history, fifty years since its original publication. show lessTags
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Heather Cateau is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus S.H.H. Carrington is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Howard University, Washington, D.C. William Darity, Jr. is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Seymour show more Drescher is Professor of History and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburg Claudius Fergus lectures and tutors at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University Joseph E. Inikori is professor of History, and Associate Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester George Lamming has written several novels and essays about Caribbean cultural and intellectual history. He remains actively involved in the cultural affairs of the Caribbean Kari Levitt is Emeritus Professor, in the Department of Economics, McGill University Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy is an Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Colin Palmer is a renowned scholar from the Caribbean. He has made significant contributions to the national community in the United States in the field of education, and has had a long and distinguished career culminating in his appointment as Distinguished Professor of History at CUNY Graduate School since 1944 Dave Ryden is at present a research fellow at Brunel University in London. He is in the final stages of his dissertation on the economy and society of eighteenth century Jamaica Ibrahim K. Sundiata is Chairman and Professor in the Department of History, Howard University, Washington, DC show less
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