African ontological and cosmological systems transferred intact with enslaved labor

Evidence

The transport of African labor to the mines and plantations of the Caribbean and subsequently to what would be known as the Americas meant also the transfer of African ontological and cosmological systems; African presumptions of the organization and significance of social structure; African codes embodying historical consciousness and social experience; and African ideological and behavioral constructions for the resolution of the inevitable conflict between the actual and the normative. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 607

Categorization

• DEFINE: Inventory of exactly what systems of thought crossed the Atlantic — ontology, cosmology, social structure, historical consciousness, ideological construction.
• XREF: connects to: Organic cosmology was embodied in circular city plans replicating the macrocosm — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 382