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Slavery and Capitalism

A New Marxist History
  • David McNally
2025
University of California Press

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Illustration of enslaved people and the royal crown.
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The Consciousness of New World Slaves as Workers

Atlantic slavery was capitalist, with enslaved workers producing profit and resisting exploitation as a “chattel proletariat.”
by Aaron Berman, David McNally via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on April 8, 2026
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