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- Title
Excavating Racial Capitalism in London's West India Docks.
- Authors
Legg, George
- Abstract
Focusing on the construction of London's West India Docks in 1802, I argue that this project established a feedback loop with conditions of production in the Caribbean. Through an analysis of committee minutes, letters, parliamentary papers and visual art, I move beyond economic accounts of slavery's impact to demonstrate how geographies of security and surveillance—first developed on the sugar plantation—were imported into the design and function of London's port. As such, I argue that London's docks produced a geography of segregation which offers a unique insight into the workings of racial capitalism and its exploitation of group‐differentiated vulnerabilities. Positioning my discussion alongside London's contemporary landscape, I excavate Britain's repressed memories of slavery to illustrate how they still scar the urban environment.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); DOCKS; CAPITALISM; SUGAR plantations; PAPER arts; ART; MEETING minutes
- Publication
Antipode, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 4, p1193
- ISSN
0066-4812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/anti.12927