Eric Williams's influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, first published in 1944, was based on his previously unavailable dissertation, now in book form for the first time. The significant differences between his two seminal works allow us to reconsider questions whose importance has only increased in our current charged climate.

Preface
Dale Tomich
Introduction: From the Dissertation to Capitalism and Slavery: Did Williams's Abolition Thesis Change?
William Darity Jr.
The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery
Eric Williams
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: The Impolicy of the Slave System
Chapter 2: The Superiority of the French West Indies
Chapter 3: East India Sugar
Chapter 4: The Attempt to Secure an International Abolition
Chapter 5: The West Indian Expeditions
Chapter 6: The Significance of the West Indian Expeditions
Chapter 7: The Abolition of the Slave Trade
Part II
Chapter 8: The Abolitionists and Emancipation
Chapter 9: The Foreign Slave Trade
Chapter 10: East India Sugar
Chapter 11: The Distressed Areas
Chapter 12: The Industrialists and Emancipation
Epilogue
Appendix I: "The Influential Men"
Appendix II: Ramsay as an Authority
Appendix III: The Intercolonial Slave Trade
Bibliography

Book publisher since 2018, Eric Williams owns 5310 Publishing, with operations around the world, selling books in more than 120 countries and multiple languages. Eric also helped many startups with marketing campaigns, business coaching, and has helped many authors get recognized.