The Roughest Riders by Jerome Tuccille6/11/2023 In their view, it was also a biologically based capitalist system in which black African American women’s wombs were turned into capital. The idea the Sublettes advance in The American Slave Coast is that slavery in the United States was not solely a system of cheap, forced, inhumane labor. Together, the Sublettes offer an economic history and theory of slavery that is blunt in its assessment, unassailable in its argument and accessible to a general reader. His latest book, published just this month, is the result of a collaboration with his wife, co-author Constance Sublette. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Ned and Constance Sublette.Īt 752 pages, this is a hefty volume, informed by the thorough and meticulous research that has characterized Ned Sublette’s earlier books, including Cuba and its Music and The World That Made New Orleans.
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