SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: World Trade Organization, Congo River, Theth

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1340
• Professor: John Simoulidis

Document Summary

First prime minister of trinidad and tobago (1962) after independence from the uk. Received is doctorate from oxford university in 1938 his doctoral thesis was later published as capitalism and slavery (1944) The (cid:271)ook (cid:862)is (cid:374)ot a stud(cid:455) of the i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) of sla(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:271)ut of the (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)i(cid:271)utio(cid:374) of slavery to the de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of b(cid:396)itish (cid:272)apitalis(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:894)p. (cid:1006)(cid:895). Also wrote inward hunger (1971, his autobiography), and from columbus to castro: the. Williams provides us with a historical analysis of the role that african slavery played in de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g (cid:272)apitalis(cid:373), (cid:271)oth i(cid:374) eu(cid:396)ope a(cid:374)d the (cid:858)ne(cid:449) wo(cid:396)ld(cid:859): the (cid:858)t(cid:396)iu(cid:373)ph(cid:859) of (cid:272)apitalis(cid:373) founded on human misery. E(cid:454)plai(cid:374)s ho(cid:449) af(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374) sla(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:449)as a solutio(cid:374) to the (cid:858)la(cid:271)ou(cid:396) p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)(cid:859) i(cid:374) (cid:858)staple e(cid:454)po(cid:396)ti(cid:374)g(cid:859) regions: free labour unavailable and indigenous and white servitude insufficient. While moral condemnation of slavery is implicit, he presents a social scientific critique of the myths surrounding slavery in the new world as rationalizing and concealing real economic interests (compare with conrad!)