Slavery and Capitalism - A New Marxist History

"With rich and well-chosen evidence, McNally establishes the ways in which the history of enslavement is best understood within Marxist categories. He writes of unspeakable exploitation and human drama in a frame that never loses track of constant resistance."--David Roediger, author of An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education "David McNally's deft application of Marx's theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery's political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved--the chattel proletariat--not as 'constant capital' or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class

"Slavery and Capitalism powerfully employs Marxist categories to provide new insights into the capitalist nature of New World slavery, the lives and labor of the enslaved, and, fundamentally, their resistance."--Pepijn Brandon, Professor of Global Economic and Social History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and lead investigator of Amsterdam's historic connections to slavery

About the author

David McNally is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, where he directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. He is the author of seven previous books and more than sixty scholarly articles.

Product details

• Authors: David McNally, McNally David
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 23.09.2025
• EAN: 9780520415973
• ISBN: 978-0-520-41597-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / World, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, General & world history, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, General and world history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black