Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism

2025/07/25 by Katie Barclay · 1 voice
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #American History and Culture #Canadian Identity and History #Race, History, and American Society

paper · doi:10.1080/03086534.2025.2531026

openalex publication_date 2025/07/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14

Abstract

Edward Long was the eighteenth-century English owner of a Jamaican plantation and the author of an early history of the island. His book provided not only an account of Jamaica’s population, natura...

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