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Zach Sell

Brown University

Zach Sell is a historian and visiting research scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. He is the author of Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital.

Sell’s videos are used in this Choices Program curriculum unit:

Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies

VIDEOS
Who are you and what do you do?
Why is it important for students to learn about slavery?
What is the connection between slavery and capitalism?
What is racial capitalism?
How did slavery contribute to the economy of the United States and the world?
What are the economic legacies of racial slavery?
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