The following Note responds to a recent article by Johan Olsthoorn and Laurens van Apeldoorn on slavery political absolutism in Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. engages with Apeldoorn’s important but queries its principal contentions.

Abstract Slavery has been a long-lasting and often endemic problem across time space, commonly coexisted with free-labor market. To understand (and possibly eradicate) slavery, one needs to unpack its relationship free labor. Under what conditions would principal choose buy slave rather than hire worker? First, slaves cannot leave at will, which reduces turnover costs; second, can be subjected ...

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. Yet, it also serves as an ...

ABSTRACT Refusal of abject commodification undergirds contemporary international law definitions slavery and their growing linkage to economic agreements through injunctions against the use forced labor. Yet there are screaming silences in ongoing attempts grapple with prevalence significance global economy. This contribution special issue on racial capitalism calls for a reckoning past slavery...