The Legacy of Eric Williams

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That is the first comprehensive historical assessment of the career of Eric Williams, the scholar and statesman. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1911, Eric Williams published his classic work Capitalism and Slavery in 1944 and a couple of other books thereafter. A historian of outstanding talent, Williams’s scholarly work has been the subject of quite a lot of international conferences. He introduced a new era within the study of slavery, focusing less at the oppressive conditions of that odious system of labour and more on its role within the construction of Western capitalism. Historians are still animated by Williams’s conclusions, and the questions he posed are still relevant to our mature working out of the ways wherein the African slave trade and slavery shaped the economies of a variegated group of societies.Eric Williams was once also the head of government of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1981. He become the premier of his country in 1961 and its first prime minister in 1962. He died in 1981 after dominating the politics of his country for a quarter of a century. This volume also includes analyses of Williams’s enormous contributions to the making of the up to date Caribbean as a statesman and a scholar

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