Author : Clarence J. Munford
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Black Ordeal of Slavery and Slave Trading in the French West Indies, 1625-1715 by : Clarence J. Munford
Download or read book The Black Ordeal of Slavery and Slave Trading in the French West Indies, 1625-1715 written by Clarence J. Munford and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with reflections on the slavery-capitalism-racism causal chain, this book reveals the tight bond between the Black West Indies and Africa through analysis of socio-political conditions in Africa, and of the ethnic origins of diaspora Africans. The years from 1625 to 1715 are the time when the scaffolding of the plantation slave economy was erected. It triggered the dialectic between the slave mode of extracting surplus labour from captive Africans on the one side, and the profit exigencies of nascent capitalism, on the other. This dialectic made the installation of the capitalist mode of production in the western hemisphere a peculiarly racist phenomenon.