Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History by Ian Baucom

Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History

Ian Baucom

387 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "cargo." Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionis...

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