Abolitionist slave resistance first publicly exposed race’s unequal burden

Evidence

The abolitionist movements, slaves uniting in resistance with white conscience and longer-term self-interest, were the first to reveal in a public way how the load of race weighed so much more heavily upon its targeted populations. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 78

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The slaves’ revolutionary consciousness constituted a historical force against racism and capitalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1130

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