English Summary/英文概要： The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery.

Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature, planter records and diaries, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim for enslaved labor in the plantation system as capitalist commodity production.

Weaving together history, political economy, and radical abolitionism, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class. Unlike those scholars who insist that enslaved people were too sensible to set their sights on liberty, he highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom and reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 马克思主义对大西洋奴隶制的资本主义性质的第一次系统论述。

卡尔·马克思关于奴役与劳动的著作虽已淡出历史学家视野，但大卫·麦克纳利为其注入了新活力。《奴隶制与资本主义》首次系统阐述了大西洋奴隶制的资本主义本质——通过殖民地旅行文学、种植园主档案与日记、以及奴隶叙事等资料，有力论证了种植园体系中被奴役的劳动力实为资本主义商品生产体系中的核心要素。

麦克纳利将历史、政治经济学与激进废奴主义相结合，揭示了种植园奴隶如何形成了现代工人阶级。不同于那些认为奴隶过于理智而无法追求自由的学者，他着重强调了被奴役者为争取自由而进行的自我抗争，并将这种抵抗重构为围绕生产与再生产的劳工斗争。这一发现对理解美国及大西洋地区的历史脉络，以及剖析种族资本主义的根源具有深远意义。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况： "With rich and well-chosen evidence, McNally establishes the ways in which the history of enslavement is best understood within Marxist categories. He writes of unspeakable exploitation and human drama in a frame that never loses track of constant resistance."—David Roediger, author of An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education "David McNally’s deft application of Marx’s theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery’s political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved—the chattel proletariat—not as ’constant capital’ or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class

"Slavery and Capitalism powerfully employs Marxist categories to provide new insights into the capitalist nature of New World slavery, the lives and labor of the enslaved, and, fundamentally, their resistance."—Pepijn Brandon, Professor of Global Economic and Social History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and lead investigator of Amsterdam’s historic connections to slavery