Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves' self-emancipation
during the U.S. Civil War as a "general strike," the language of
labor history has informed scholarly understandings of slavery.
While the analogy of the plantation to the factory has its obvious
limitations, historians have understood slaves and slaveholders as
engaged in recognizable struggles over the speed of work, the
ownership of time and expertise, and the informal rights and
privileges that governed the labor process. However, an older
materialist history rooted in marxist categories has not always
succeeded in capturing the dynamics of racial dominance and human
commodification at the heart of the American slave system. A "new
history of capitalism" has offered one remedy, namely to embed
slavery firmly within a capitalist mode of production whose
investment in "free" labor was always more rhetorical than real. A
different response may now be emerging through what scholars call
"the new materialism"-an approach organized around human/non-human
entanglements and drawing on recent theoretical work on things,
networks, and assemblages. This talk considers the implications of
this "new materialism" for the history of slavery, and by
extension, for the field of labor history more generally.
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