Mapping racial capitalism in 18th century Jamaica: debts and disavowals

2025/05/01 by Sarah Bufkin · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Caribbean history, culture, and politics #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

paper · doi:10.1080/1070289x.2025.2500843

openalex publication_date 2025/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/26

Abstract

In a moment in which historians are producing rich accounts that foreground the agency and voices of enslaved and colonized peoples, it may seem strange to write a history of racial capitalism in J...

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