How a desire for profit led to the invention of race

Eric Foner

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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800 by Robin Blackburn

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Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Our Lincoln, an edited volume, will be published in the autumn.

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