The Black Ordeal of Slave Trading & Slavery in the French West Indies, 1625-1715, 2

by Clarence J. Munford

Together with reflections on the slavery-capitalism-racism causal chain, this book reveals the tight bond between the Black West Indies and Africa through analysis of socio-political conditions in Africa, and of the ethnic origins of diaspora Africans. The years from 1625 to 1715 are the time when the scaffolding of the plantation slave economy was erected. It triggered the dialectic between the slave mode of extracting surplus labor from captive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773494316
• ISBN13: 9780773494312
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.