The Dignity of Honest Toil: A Review Article

TLDR: The renewed study of post-Columbian New World slavery could be conveniently dated from C. L. R. James' The Black Jacobins,I Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery,2 or perhaps Frank Tannenbaum's Slave and Citizen as discussed by the authors.

Abstract: The renewed study of post-Columbian New World slavery could be conveniently dated from C. L. R. James' The Black Jacobins,I Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery,2 or perhaps Frank Tannenbaum's Slave and Citizen.3 Some time later, the reception accorded Stanley Elkins' Slavery4 made plain that a new era had begun; the trickle of articles and books on the subject soon became a flood.5 Though many different forces probably, contributed to this seemingly rather sudden fascination with slavery and with Afro-America generally, the reviewer has suggested the obvious elsewhere:6 the civil rights struggle in the United States, and the emergence of sovereign polities in Africa probably did most for the reawakening.