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Eric Williams\u2019\u00a0Capitalism and Slavery<\/em>\u00a0(1944) remains a powerful, provocative and influential work of historical scholarship. For Williams, chattel slavery provided Britain with the capacity to develop commercial and industrial capitalism, and\u2014in turn\u2014the means to power an eighteenth-century industrial revolution. As the profits of slavery declined, Williams argued, so did British commitment to the slave trade\u2014the motivations for abolition of the slave trade (1807) and of slavery (1834) being economic rather than humanitarian.<\/p>\n In this international panel, historians working in the fields of eighteenth-century Caribbean slavery and slave economy, and Anglo-Caribbean society, come together to consider the debates and legacies of\u00a0Capitalism and Slavery<\/em>. First published in the UK by Andr\u00e9 Deutsch in 1964, Williams\u2019 classic text \u2014 \u2018perhaps the most influential book written in the twentieth century on the history of slavery (Oxford DNB) \u2014 is gaining a new readership following its republication as a\u00a0Penguin Modern Classic<\/a>\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n Panellists will introduce, and set in context, the scholarly and political work of Eric Williams (1911-1981)<\/a>, as well as review nearly 80 years of responses to\u00a0Capitalism and Slavery<\/em>. Our panel considers the value and contribution of the \u2018Williams\u2019 thesis\u2019 in contemporary scholarship. Speakers will also offer their perspectives on future research directions for histories of slavery and the slave economy, as well as the social and economic history of the Caribbean, in the long eighteenth century.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More on the Royal Historical Society’s events programme, 2023<\/a> ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Panel Discussion 17:00 BST, Tuesday 13 June 2023, Online\u00a0 Watch the recording of this event Speakers at the event Dr Heather Cateau (University of the West Indies and University of St Andrews) Dr Stephen Mullen (University of Glasgow) Professor Harvey Neptune (Temple University) Professor Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford) Professor Matthew J. Smith …Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20210,"featured_media":0,"parent":34543,"menu_order":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34868","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48128,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34868\/revisions\/48128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About our panellists<\/span><\/h4>\n
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