Barbara J. Fields' brilliant observation about race, class, and US slavery

Jonas Kyratzes recently pointed out this bit that Seth Ackerman quoted inYes, Racism Is Rooted in Economic Inequality | Jacobin. It'sfromBarbara Jeanne Fields: Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America. New Left Review I/181, May-June 1990: Probably a majority of American historians think of slavery in the United States as primarily a system of race relations — as though the