Slavery, Capitalism, and the Power to Commodify
b'What role did slavery play in the story of U.S. capitalism? Does the fact that slavery wasn\\u2019t rooted in wage labor mean that it wasn\\u2019t a form of capitalist practice? Caitlin Rosenthal offers a definition of capitalism and shares her understanding of how commodification, and the power to impose it, operated under slavery.\\nCaitlin Rosenthal, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management Harvard University Press, 2019 (paper)\\nThe post Slavery, Capitalism, and the Power to Commodify appeared first on KPFA.'