Kwazman Vwa is honored to start this new course of conversations with Nick Nesbitt, who is professor in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University. Nesbitt’s scholarship has had a profound impact in the fields of Haitian, French-Caribbean and African Studies, and Postcolonial and Critical Theory. He will be in conversation with our own Charly Verstraet and Lucy Swanson, to discuss his latest book, The Price of Slavery, Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean, published with the University of Virgina Press, in 2022. This conversation will be held in English via Zoom. Please register at via the form below.
Summary from University of Virginia Press:
“The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx’s critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Césaire. Nick Nesbitt assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism and slavery since Eric Williams in light of Marx’s key concept of the social forms of labor, wealth, and value. To do so, Nesbitt systematically reconstructs for the first time Marx’s analysis of capitalist slavery across the three volumes of Capital. The book then follows the legacy of Caribbean critique in its reflections on the social forms of labor, servitude, and freedom, as they culminate in the vehement call for the revolutionary transformation of an unjust colonial order into one of universal justice and equality.”
When: November 15, 2023 | 8 a.m. MST, 10 a.m. EST, 4 p.m. France.
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