The price of slavery : capitalism and revolution in the Caribbean / Nick Nesbitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nesbitt, Nick, 1964- author.

Series:

New World Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Caribbean Area.

Slavery.

Marxist criticism.

Slave rebellions--Caribbean Area.

Slave rebellions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This book draws together Marxist analysis with the critiques of the leaders of Haiti's slave revolt"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. From Marx...

The problem of social form in Eric Williams's Capitalism and slavery

Reading capital in the Caribbean: Marx and the nature of capitalist slavery

II. ...To Black Jacobinism

The reinvention of social form: the necessity of revolution in C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins

Slavery, postcolonial labor, and social form from St. Domingue to Haiti

The Caribbean critique of social form: Aime Cesaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Suzanne Cesaire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Nesbitt, Nick The Price of Slavery

ISBN:

9780813947105

OCLC:

1264754111