Robin Blackburn is the author of The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, and The Reckoning. He is emeritus professor at the University of Essex and was a distinguished visiting professor at the New School in New York.
Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World. He spoke to Jacobin about the intimate links between the slave systems in the Americas and the origins of capitalism.
Ed Miliband was no radical. But he helped lay the groundwork for Jeremy Corbyn’s rise, New Left Review’s Robin Blackburn argues.
The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.