Eric Williams was a Trinidadian historian, politician, and social commentator. He is best known for his book Capitalism and Slavery, which argued that the profits from the slave trade were a major factor in the Industrial Revolution in Britain. He was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, serving from 1961 to 1981.
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Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.
— Eric Williams
What can you learn from Eric Williams (Life Lessons)
- Eric Williams was a historian who studied the history of colonialism and slavery, and his work showed that economic interests were a major factor in the development of these systems.
- He argued that the profits from the slave trade and colonialism were essential to the development of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution.
- His work showed that economic interests can have a major influence on social and political systems, and this is an important lesson to remember when studying history.
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To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.
My mental approach is totally different.
My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.
Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.
Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.
You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.
For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.
They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!
Scholarly quotes by Eric Williams
Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
I played baseball, and that's pretty much it.
Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.