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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS CAPITALISM AND SLAVER...

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading  but this book really is compulsory. You
cannot understand slavery  or British Empire  without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the
slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress  Eric Williams's landmark 1944
study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism  and has influenced generations of
historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial
Revolution  and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision. Most
significantly  he showed how slavery was only abolished when it ceased to become financially
viable  exploding the myth of emancipation as a mark of Britain's moral progress. 'Its thesis
is a starting point for a new generation of scholarship' New Yorker

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