Recommended reading: MARXISM VS. 'THE NEW HISTORIANS OF CAPITALISM’: An academic tendency distorts the history of slavery and capitalism James Miller, 2021

[....] The quality of scholarship of Becker, Baptist, Johnson, Rockman and their colleagues is generally quite accessible and often contains valuable insights into historical conditions and processes. They provide detailed revelations of the horrific abuses involved in the slave system, as well as the many ways in which capitalist exploitation and commercial activity developed interdependencies forms of collaboration with the slave system, particularly in the first 60 years of the 19th century. In this respect, they shed new light on some of the more obscure features of 19th century U. S. history. But their principal objective is to represent slavery and capitalism as amalgamated into a virtually undifferentiated unity.

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