Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history /

Ian Baucom presents a study of the 1781 massacre of 133 slaves on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the after-effects of the event on the development of modernity. Baucom insists that this is not just a past atrocity but is present within the future we now inhabit

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Main Author:	Baucom, Ian, 1967-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2005 Durham, NC : 2005 Durham : 2005
Subjects:	Zong (Ship) 1700 - 1799 1700-1799 18th century Abolitionists > Great Britain > History > 18th century Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 18th century Capitalism > Social aspects > History > 18th century Slave trade > Africa > History > 18th century Slave trade > America > History > 18th century Slave trade > Great Britain > History > 18th century Slave-trade > Africa > History > 18th century Slave-trade > Great Britain > History > 18th century Trials > Great Britain > History > 18th century Abolitionists Antislavery movements Capitalism > Social aspects History Slave trade Trials Africa America Great Britain Electronic books

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