· 2022· Book chapter
Capitalism and Slavery
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- 2022year
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Roger Anstey's 2022 analysis reinterprets Eric Williams' "Capitalism and Slavery," arguing that the book's core thesis is that the slave trade and Negro slavery provided crucial capital for England's Industrial Revolution, and that mature industrial capitalism later drove the abolition of the slave system.
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