The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean

The Price of Slavery (University of Virginia Press) explores Caribbean thinkers’ critiques and reinterpretations of Marxist ideas about capitalism and slavery. Referencing the scholarship of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Césaire, Nesbitt shows how Marx’s key ideas about labor and wealth relate to vehement calls for transformation of an unjust colonial system.