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A Brief History of U.S. Slavery

Was U.S. slavery different from other forms of slavery? Some commentators try to minimize the slavery’s impact on the United States. This is a brief history of slavery in the United States.

Citations:

Painter, Nell Irvin. “How We Think about the Term ‘Enslaved’ Matters.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 14 Aug. 2019.

Hudson, Nicholas. “‘Nation to ‘Race’: The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 247–264. Spring, 1996.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Tenth Anniversary Edition. New Press, 2020. Buy here!

Davis, Adrienne. “‘Don’t Let Nobody Bother Yo’ Principle’: The Sexual Economy of American Slavery.” Sister Circle: Black Women and Work, edited by Sharon Harley, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2002. Buy here!

Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. Buy here!

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!

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HISTORY

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Was U.S. Slavery Different? Responding to Candace Owens & Ben Shapiro

Was U.S. slavery different from other forms of slavery? Some commentators try to minimize the slavery’s impact on the United States. I respond to Candace Owens & Ben Shapiro videos on U.S. slavery.

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Citations:

Gonzalez, Nancie L. “From Cannibals to Mercenaries: Carib Militarism, 1600-1840.” Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 46, no. 1, 1990, pp. 25–39.

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. Buy here!

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!

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Race: The History of a Word

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Historically, race has been an extremely important & commonly used word in the last like 500 years. But, like all words, the history of the word race is complicated. You see, the contemporary definition of the word race just didn’t pop up out of nowhere. It’s changed quite a bit. In this video we explore the etymology and history of this word from Plato & Aristotle all the way to David Hume & Voltaire.

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PHILOSOPHY

Citations:

Hudson, Nicholas. “‘Nation to ‘Race’: The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 247–264. Spring, 1996, https://doi.org/http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053821.

Ward, Julie K., and Tommy L. Lott, editors. Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays. Blackwell, 2002. Buy Here!

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!

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Blood & Gold: The Transition to Capitalism | Caliban & the Witch

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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!

Period!

Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.

This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, Transition to Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology, The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History, The Price Revolution and the Criminalization of the Working Class, The Patriarchy of the Wage, and The Disciplining of Women

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CALIBAN & THE WITCH

Citations:

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!

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The Patriarchy of the Wage | Caliban & the Witch

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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!

Period!

Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.

This chapter covers the following: The Patriarchy of the Wage and the Disciplining of Women.

Citations:

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!

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The Immiseration of the Working Class | Caliban & the Witch

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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!

Period!

Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.

This chapter covers the following: The Price Revolution, and the Pauperization & Criminalization of the Working Class

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Citations:

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!

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The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History | Caliban & the Witch

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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!

Period!

Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.

This chapter covers the following: The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History

Watch the video!

Citations:

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!

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