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  1. Gerdeman: The book says "the relationship of slavery to American capitalism rightfully begins on the plantation." Can you explain how the North benefited from the slave-grown cotton in...

  2. May 3, 2017 · Sven Beckert discusses Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, an exploration by 16 scholars of the ties between the brutal system of human bondage and 19th century economic development across the nation.

  3. For over a century now, historians of the United States have been wrestling with the relationship between capitalism and slavery. They’ve asked questions inquiring whether capitalism and slavery are compatible, what role slavery played in capitalist development, and probably most infamously: Is slavery capitalism?

  4. Aug 23, 2022 · The capitalism and slavery debate is among the most significant in world historiography. This essay suggests that its main perspectives still use nation-based approaches and employ analytical categories of classical and neoclassical economics that obscure the very notion of capital.

    • Tâmis Parron
    • tamisparron@id.uff.br
  5. Feb 4, 2019 · But historians of slavery and capitalism today do not view slavery as antithetical to capitalism, and in fact trace many features of capitalism, commodification, management techniques, technological innovations, international credit flows, and the creation of financial instruments to plantation slavery.

    • Manisha Sinha
    • 2019
  6. Apr 14, 2019 · The present study is an attempt in 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.

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  8. The relationship between slavery and capitalism has become a renewed topic of debate, yet scholars have not been able to agree on a definition of capitalism. In this article I first clear up some misconceptions and situate the debate in the Marxian tradition from which it arose.

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