Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy

In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery’s integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, he reinterprets the development of the world economy through the prism of slavery. Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy.