![]() Yet any explanation that elides slavery, colonialism, and the shards of an emerging capitalism, along with their handmaiden-white supremacy-is deficient in explanatory power. There are many reasons for this stunning turnabout. 1 It then passed the baton to its revolting spawn, the United States, which has carried global dominance into the present century. At the onset of the seventeenth century, the sceptered isle was a second-class power, but the Great Britain that emerged by the beginning of the eighteenth century was, in many ways, the planet’s reigning superpower. The years between 16 were perhaps the most decisive in English history. This article is adapted from The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, just out from Monthly Review Press. ![]() and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston and the author of more than three dozen books.
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