Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research is an international institute guided by popular movements and organisations that seeks to build a bridge between academic production and political and social movements, in order to promote critical thinking and stimulate debates and research with an emancipatory perspective that serves the people’s aspirations.
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The Roots of Capitalism: Slavery and the Sugar Trade
The modern capitalist world was built not only in banks and factories but also through the plantations, ports, and ships that transformed sugar and enslaved human beings into sources of global profit.
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