Capitalism and Slavery

by Eric Williams

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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.
It is strictly an economic study of the role of Negro
slavery and the slave trade in providing the capital which financed the Industrial Revolution in England and of mature industrial capitalism in destroying the slave system.
  • ISBN13 9781329560086
  • Publish Date 17 September 2015 (first published 1 January 1944)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lulu.com
  • Format eBook
  • Language English