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

ISBN: 0822335964

ISBN13: 9780822335962

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

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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 abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social...

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