Heather Cateau is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus S.H.H. Carrington is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Howard University, Washington, D.C. William Darity, Jr. is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Seymour Drescher is Professor of History and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburg Claudius Fergus lectures and tutors at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University Joseph E. Inikori is professor of History, and Associate Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester George Lamming has written several novels and essays about Caribbean cultural and intellectual history. He remains actively involved in the cultural affairs of the Caribbean Kari Levitt is Emeritus Professor, in the Department of Economics, McGill University Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy is an Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Colin Palmer is a renowned scholar from the Caribbean. He has made significant contributions to the national community in the United States in the field of education, and has had a long and distinguished career culminating in his appointment as Distinguished Professor of History at CUNY Graduate School since 1944 Dave Ryden is at present a research fellow at Brunel University in London. He is in the final stages of his dissertation on the economy and society of eighteenth century Jamaica Ibrahim K. Sundiata is Chairman and Professor in the Department of History, Howard University, Washington, DC
List of Contributors
xi
Preface
xv
Introduction
1
(20)
Part I Insights into the Man and His Work
21
(28)
Eric Williams and Howard University
23
(6)
John Hope Franklin
The Legacy of Eric Williams
29
(8)
George Lamming
Eric Williams and His Intellectual Legacy
37
(12)
Colin Palmer
Part II Holistic View of Text
49
(70)
Capitalism and Slavery, Fifty Years After: Eric Williams and the Changing Explanations of the Industrial Revolution
51
(30)
Joseph Inikori
Capitalism and Slavery: After Fifty Years
81
(18)
Seymour Drescher
Williams as Historian
99
(20)
Andrew O'Shaughnessy
Part III Slave Trade/Slavery/Profitability/Decline
119
(52)
Capitalism and Slavery: ``The Commercial Part of the Nation''
121
(16)
Ibrahim Sundiata
Economic Aspects of the British Trade in Slaves: A Fresh Look at the Evidence from the 1789 Report of the Lords of Trade
137
(18)
William Darity
Planters, Slaves and Decline
155
(16)
David Ryden
Part IV: New Directions
171
(64)
War, Revolution and Abolitionism 1793-1806
173
(24)
Claudius Fergus
Globalization: Reality or Ideology
197
(38)
Kari Levitt
Index
235
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