Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery The “primary purpose” of New World slaves, Sidney Mintz wrote, was to serve as manual laborers engaged…in the production of market commodities…Slaves were not primarily a source of prestige, of sexual satisfaction, of sadistic impulses, or of anything else but profit, and profit in a frankly capitalistic system, even though the curious view that slavery […]
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