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John Clegg

Bylines

The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.

by John Clegg, Adaner Usmani via Catalyst on September 1, 2019
How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

by John Clegg via Jacobin on August 28, 2019
African American Civil War Soldiers

Why an historian is compiling a digital database of the military records of 200,000+ black Union soldiers.

by John Clegg, Guy Emerson Mount via Black Perspectives on May 3, 2018

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Drawing of people picking cotton at a plantation

A Few Random Thoughts on Capitalism and Slavery

Historian James Oakes offers a critique of the New History of Capitalism.

by James Oakes via The Economic Historian on September 28, 2020

Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.

by Adaner Usmani, Jacobin via Jacobin on March 17, 2020

Boiling House at the Sugar Plantation Asunción, Cuba, 1857.

Slavery Was Crucial for the Development of Capitalism

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

by Robin Blackburn, Owen Dowling via Jacobin on April 10, 2024

Statue of Stonewall Jackson, on its side in slings and propped up by tires, in front of its graffiti-covered pedestal.

What the 1619 Project Got Wrong

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

by James Oakes via Catalyst on December 17, 2021

A photograph of enslaved laborers picking and carrying cotton in a field near Montgomery, Alabama.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Power over Price

The debate between historians and economists over the definition of capitalism, and the legacy of slavery in the structure of today's economy.

by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Johnny Fulfer via The Economic Historian on August 3, 2020

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