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Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
Alexander Hamilton: An American Slave-Master
25 Nov 2020
The Broadway show is a fiction and bamboozlement: Hamilton was a depraved enslaver of people, just like most of the Founders of the White Settler State.
Parul Sehgal
White Women Were Avid Slaveowners
23 Sep 2020
The violence of slave-owning women especially could go unchecked, particularly when the victims were black children.
Peter James Hudson
The Racist Dawn of Capitalism
24 Apr 2019
The centrality of slavery to capitalism is not new, as any serious student of WEB Dubois is aware. “Negro slavery seemed the very basis of American capitalism.”
Dr. Gerald Horne
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
18 Apr 2018
This article is adapted from The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, just out from M
Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”