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Azfar, Farid. "Leviathan and the Asiento: A Counter-History of the Racial Contract." New Literary History 52, no. 3 (2021): 431–467.
A study of Thomas Hobbes's sociopolitical theory in the context of early modern European commercial contracts. Azfar delves into the intersection of racializing practice and early capitalism by embedding the composition of Hobbes's Leviathan within the context of European slaving contracts, providing a trajectory for the history of white supremacy. The work deals with debates in the study of political theory, capitalism, and enslavement.
