Ebook - Capitalism And Slavery

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 adequately
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 responsible
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 commerce of that period, its direct effect upon the development
of the Industrial Revolution, and the heritage which
it has left even upon the civilization of today have not anywhere
been placed in compact and yet comprehensive perspective.
This study is an attempt to do so, without, however, failing
to give indications of the economic origin of well-known
social, political, and even intellectual currents.
The book, however, is not an essay in ideas or interpretation.
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.

Author: Williams Eric.
Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Economics in general
Publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press.
Language: English
Call number: 33027
Book contributor: Osmania University
Collection: universallibrary