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Capitalism and Slavery at 75

 
sgtdjones 2019-05-06 15:06:42 

Capitalism and Slavery at 75

Dr Er­ic Williams' book Cap­i­tal­ism and Slav­ery was a "wa­ter­shed" mo­ment for Caribbean his­to­ry writ­ing, Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Hu­man­i­ties & Ed­u­ca­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­die's St Au­gus­tine cam­pus Dr Heather Cateau has said.

Cateau made the state­ment yes­ter­day dur­ing a pan­el dis­cus­sion ti­tled "Cap­i­tal­ism and Slav­ery at 75" held at the Old Fire Sta­tion Build­ing for the NGC Bo­cas Lit Fest.

This year marks 75 years since Cap­i­tal­ism and Slav­ery was first pub­lished.

"When Williams was writ­ing there was no con­text for our his­to­ry, there was no voice, and he be­came that voice and that voice res­onat­ed not on­ly in the Caribbean but in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and we must un­der­stand that pow­er, that is an ac­tivist," Cateau said.

"And I think some­times as aca­d­e­mics we get caught up in re­search but Williams will ask you 'what is your re­search do­ing, why are you do­ing it, it is use­less dec­o­ra­tion if it is bound and put there, how is this con­nect­ed to your so­ci­ety, how do you use it to make a dif­fer­ence' and ul­ti­mate­ly that is what an ac­tivist is at its core," she said.

Cateau said Williams was the "ul­ti­mate schol­ar ac­tivist".


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mikesiva 2019-05-06 16:28:14 

In reply to sgtdjones

A lot of British academics claim that Seymour Drescher refuted the Williams thesis with his book "Econocide". I've read "Econocide", and it does nothing of the sort....

But you can't tell these white people that! Them head hard....

 
Chrissy 2019-05-06 23:14:51 

In reply to sgtdjones

A great book

 
culpepperboy 2019-05-07 00:33:56 

Slavery was not born of
racism: rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.