Father of T&T, Prime Minister Dr Eric Williams famous book on slavery published in Britain

 

84 YEARS LATER, DR ERIC WILLIAMS BOOK "CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY" GO MAINSTREAM IN BRITAIN 

EIGHTY-FOUR years after publishers there rejected it for confronting the status quo, a book by Trinidad and Tobago’s first prime minister Dr Eric Williams, challenging Britain’s narrative that humanitarianism fuelled its Slavery Abolition Act, was published by the United Kingdom’s Penguin Modern Classics.

The February 24 print of Capitalism and Slavery marked the first publication of Williams’ book by a mainstream house in Britain, according to an online article by the UK’s The Observer last Sunday. Read more here from the Trinidad Express 

You can purchase this iconic ground breaking work from Williams here