tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703983863002652001.post5347898589918249139..comments2024-03-21T08:50:20.533-07:00Comments on Pirates & Revolutionaries: 5: Seeing Machines. Instrumentality and Perception in the Seventeeth Century. [The Kvond Spinoza’s Foci Summary Series]Corry Shoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021754334885248079noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703983863002652001.post-30819060285228628752009-09-29T00:34:57.968-07:002009-09-29T00:34:57.968-07:00That's interesting. Thanks, I'll check the...That's interesting. Thanks, I'll check them out. I had no idea about this.Corry Shoreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10021754334885248079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703983863002652001.post-87056163515049799272009-09-28T11:20:57.531-07:002009-09-28T11:20:57.531-07:00Wow, that is very good. In particular I like the c...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:<br /><br />http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/spinoza-the-merchant-the-canary-islands-sugar-and-diamonds-and-leprosy/<br /><br />http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/spinoza-and-the-caliban-question/<br /><br />http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/dealings-in-london-evidence-for-spinoza-sugar-trade-relations/<br /><br />http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/the-hope-of-israel-and-what-spinoza-means-by-the-ethiopian/<br /><br />http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/spinoza-doubt-the-sephardim-and-the-slave-trade/<br /><br />http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/spinoza-sugar-time-table/<br /><br />http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/gabriel-spinoza-jews-in-barbados/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com