Sylabus
Syllabus
-Week 1 Introduction: Marx and the Caribbean critique of slavery
-Week 2 Eric Williams, Slavery and Capitalism; Nesbitt Ch. 1a
-Week 3 CLR James, Black Jacobins; Nesbitt ch.4
-Week 4 Beckert, Slavery’s Capitalism; Nesbitt ch. 1c
-Week 5 Wood, Origin of Capitalism; Nesbitt ch. 1b
-Week 6 Marx, Capital (selections); Nesbitt ch. 2a
- Week 7 Henry Christophe, Code Henry
- Week 8 Marx, Capital (selections); Nesbitt ch. 2b
- Week 9 Tomich, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar (selections)
- Week 10 Suzanne Césaire, Le grand camouflage; Histories of Racial Capitalism
- Week 11 Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe
- Week 12 (12/12) Conclusions