Slavery and Capitalism, 9780520415973
Hardcover
Enslaved people: Modern workers fighting for freedom in a capitalist system.

Slavery and Capitalism

a new marxist history

$90.74

  • Hardcover

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    5 November 2025

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Summary

Chains of Profit: Slavery, Capitalism, and the Making of a Modern Working Class

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery.

Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature, plan…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780520415973
ISBN-10:0520415973
Author:David McNally
Publisher:University of California Press
Imprint:University of California Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:5 November 2025
Weight:635g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 36mm
About The Author

David McNally

David McNally is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, where he directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. He is the author of seven previous books and more than sixty scholarly articles.

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