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Michael Taylor: Made by Free Hands, 21 October 2021
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition
by Bronwen Everill.
Harvard, 318 pp., £31.95, September 2020,978 0 674 24098 8 Show More
by Bronwen Everill.
Harvard, 318 pp., £31.95, September 2020,
“... also worried for the cause of ‘legitimate commerce’, one of two key concepts at the heart of Bronwen Everill’s incisive history of political economy and ‘ethical capitalism’ in the age of abolition.The logic informing the practice of legitimate commerce was complicated. It assumed that African peoples went to war in order to capture enemies ... ”
