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Eric Williams

SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/21/2020

Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

by Katie Donington

Debates over Eric Williams’s work have ebbed and flowed ever since he first published Capitalism and Slavery in 1944. His book inspired a body of historiography to which many historians of slavery and abolition have added their voices over the decades.

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Eric Williams

Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

by Katie Donington