The House That Slavery Built | Tasha Williams | Pacific Standard | 5th August 2016

On the place of slavery in the rise of America as a world power. “If we gave the two-and-a-half centuries of slavery the same scholarly attention as European feudalism and the Industrial Revolution, we could talk today about important threads running through our national and world history. And if those conversations could explore the economic facets of slavery, we could see that slavery was a critical factor in the economic growth of the U.S. and the rise of global capitalism”