Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism
本文探讨如何将非洲视角融入奴隶制与资本主义历史关系的讨论，重点分析非洲历史学家约瑟夫·C·米勒的“民族政治经济学”概念，该概念结合民族志与量化数据，为理解早期现代资本主义的巩固提供了新路径。
This article identifies new pathways for integrating African perspectives into debates about the historical relationship between slavery and capitalism. It focuses extensively on the work of African historian Joseph C. Miller (1939–2019), whose concept of “ethno political economics” combined ethnographic and quantitative data and offered a new perspective on Atlantic World history. Building on theorizations of early twentieth-century scholars W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, and others, Miller's analysis foregrounded the simultaneously local and global processes of credit expansion, commercialization, and labor exploitation as foundational to the consolidation of early modern capitalism.