Abolition as Market Regulation

Introduction

CEDRIC J. ROBINSON’S PASSING this summer at the age

Triptych

But for is always game. A man can be murdered twice

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and

History Matters

WALTER JOHNSON ARGUES AGAINST a triumphalist narrative

The Gong of History; Or, What Is a Human?

EVERY GREAT HISTORICAL EPOCH in the freedom struggle

Theories of Justice

RETHINKING OUR NOTION OF JUSTICE through the history

Racial Capitalism and the Dark Proletariat

OUR IDEA OF RACIAL CAPITALISM, as Walter Johnson explains

Reviving the Black Radical Tradition

WALTER JOHNSON IS UPSET at the state of the historiography

Putting Rights in Their Place

WALTER JOHNSON GIVES A BRACING critique of two ways

What Slavery Tells Us about Marx

Following W. E. B. Du Bois and Cedric Robinson, Walter

When Liberalism Defended Slavery

Walter Johnson demonstrates how little liberal humanism

Black Humanity and Black Power

BLACK HUMANITY IS UNEXCEPTIONAL, Walter Johnson exhorts.

This, Our Second Nadir

IT HAS BEEN WORSE. Let’s not forget “The Nadir,” as

Racial Capitalism and Human Rights

Are we not coming more and more, day by day, to making

Lake Michigan, Scene 22

And I point to the list of the names of the missing

Births of a Nation: Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson

Births of a Nation: Surveying Trumpland with Cedric

From Good Stock / Strange Blood Dawn

Symptomatic of being a slave is to forget you’re a

Further Reading

In addition to the work of our contributors, the editors

Contributors

Dwayne Betts is a poet, memoirist, and teacher. His