The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man: The Last Testament of Eric Williams

Devin Leigh is a teacher and researcher based in the Bay Area. He writes mostly about connections between the West Indies, West Africa, and Great Britain in the 18th century. His writing has appeared in such academic journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Journal of Caribbean History, and Slavery &amp; Abolition.

Devin Leigh

Window to the Mind: On Brinsley Samaroo and Eric Williams’s “The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

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Devin Leigh is a teacher and researcher based in the Bay Area. He writes mostly about connections between the West Indies, West Africa, and Great Britain in the 18th century. His writing has appeared in such academic journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Journal of Caribbean History, and Slavery &amp; Abolition.

Devin Leigh

Articles

Window to the Mind: On Brinsley Samaroo and Eric Williams’s “The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man”