nov 16, 2021 - The James Ford Special Lecture: Racial capitalism across the black/white Atlantic by Catherine Hall (UCL)

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The James Ford Special Lecture: Racial capitalism across the black/white Atlantic
by Catherine Hall (UCL)

This lecture will focus on the system of racial capitalism that operated across the C18 Atlantic. Utilising the life and writings of Edward Long, C18 historian of Jamaica, it will explore the ways in which white colonists attempted to make race – to establish fixed divisions between black and white people on the basis of nature. Since such divisions were not natural it required constant vigilance at every level – economic, political and cultural – to maintain these binaries which were always in danger of slippage. Slavery, as Equiano said, was a state of war."

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