The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism

Gerald Horne · 2018 · Nonfiction

Why we chose it: Gerald Horne’s bracing argument ties the roots of slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism across the 17th-century Caribbean and North America. Polemical and expansive, it puts the region at the center of the modern world’s making.