Here's an excerpt from my new book in Literary Hub. Remarkably, they chose a section on plantation profits, fetishism, and why enslaved people represented living labor not constant capital.
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Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery
The “primary purpose” of New World slaves, Sidney Mintz wrote, was to serve as manual laborers engaged…in the production of market commodities…Slaves were not primarily a source of pres…
