Summary of kvond’s ideas, by Corry Shores
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Wow, that is very good. In particular I like the connection to the efficiency of slavery, something I have thought about and touched on, but have not written enough about. I'm unsure of what posts of mine you have read, but I also followed the Spinoza family's possible connection to the sugar trade, and tangentally the slave trade (his community had strong connections to the sugar slave colony of Recife Brazil). I cannot help but feel that Spinoza's remove from Amsterdam commerce cannot be completely disconnected from the problem of slavery. A variety of posts in relation:
ReplyDeletehttp://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/spinoza-the-merchant-the-canary-islands-sugar-and-diamonds-and-leprosy/
http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/spinoza-and-the-caliban-question/
http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/dealings-in-london-evidence-for-spinoza-sugar-trade-relations/
http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/the-hope-of-israel-and-what-spinoza-means-by-the-ethiopian/
http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/spinoza-doubt-the-sephardim-and-the-slave-trade/
http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/spinoza-sugar-time-table/
http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/gabriel-spinoza-jews-in-barbados/
That's interesting. Thanks, I'll check them out. I had no idea about this.
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