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Weekly Worker 221 Thursday December 18 1997
Capitalism and slavery
This article is based on a speech given at Communist University ’97 by Robin Blackburn, author of 'The making of New World slavery'
The title of this article is, of course, an echo of the famous book of the same name by Eric Williams, published in 1944.
There are not many books written 50 years ago that are still in print and still being vigourously debated - especially those written under a Marxist influence. Williams was a leader of the Trinidad national liberation struggle. Unfortunately, in his later life he became a rather reactionary prime minister, but that is another story. I take up and reconsider the themes of Capitalism and slavery in my own work.
There has been a tendency to deny the connection between capitalism and slavery on the part of bourgeois historians: that is why Williams’ book really stuck in their gullet - and they have been chewing over it ever since it was published. There have been......

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