Race and Finance Sessions 1-3

SESSION 1:

Buck-Morss, Susan. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Miller, Joseph C. “The Problem of Slavery as History.” In The Problem of Slavery as History. Yale University Press, 2012.

Johnson, Walter. “The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question.” Journal of the Early Republic 24, no. 2 (2004): 299–308.

Robinson, Cedric. “A Critique of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction.” The Black Scholar 8, no. 7 (May 1977): 44–50.

Foster, John Bellamy, Hannah Holleman, and Brett Clark. “Marx and Slavery.” Monthly Review, July 1, 2020, 96–117.

Oakes, James. “Capitalism and Slavery and the Civil War.” International Labor and Working-Class History 89 (2016): 195–220.

Rood, Dan. “Beckert Is Liverpool, Baptist Is New Orleans: Geography Returns to the History of Capitalism.” Journal of the Early Republic 36, no. 1 (2016): 151–67. https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2016.0004.

Clegg, John, and Duncan Foley. “A Classical-Marxian Model of Antebellum Slavery.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 43, no. 1 (January 17, 2019): 107–38.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93yofPgb_Ak

SESSION 2:

Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

[packet: Reviews of Slavery and Social Death]

Patterson, Orlando. “The Unholy Trinity: Freedom, Slavery, and the American Constitution.” Social Research 54, no. 3 (Autumn 1987).

Richard, Carl J. The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States. Harvard University Press, 2009: Chapter 7.

Saidiya V. Hartman, Frank B. Wilderson, and III. “The Position of the Unthought.” Qui Parle 13, no. 2 (2003): 183–201.

Holmes, Kwame. “Necrocapitalism, Or, The Value of Black Death”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKN7sJUiwm4

SESSION 3:

McNally, David. Blood and Money: War, Slavery, and the State. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2020.

Gourevitch, Alex, and University of Arkansas Press. “Debt, Freedom, and Inequality.” Philosophical Topics 40, no. 1 (2012): 135–51.

Josine Blok, and Julia Krul. “Debt and Its Aftermath: The Near Eastern Background to Solon’s Seisachtheia.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 86, no. 4 (2017): 607.

Gallant, T. W. “Agricultural Systems, Land Tenure, and the Reforms of Solon.” The Annual of the British School at Athens 77 (November 1982): 111–24.

Harris, Edward M. “Did Solon Abolish Debt-Bondage?” The Classical Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2002).

Testart, Alain. “The Extent and Significance of Debt Slavery.” Revue Française de Sociologie 43 (2002): 173.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEPP50daqmA