Eric Williams

Author

Eric Williams (1911–1981) was a Trinidadian historian, politician, and the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Capitalism and Slavery is his groundbreaking and controversial 1944 study arguing that the profits of the Atlantic slave trade played a crucial role in financing the Industrial Revolution. Williams's audiobook offers... listeners one of the most important and debated works of economic and historical scholarship of the twentieth century. Read more Show less