An African tradition grounded Black resistance from 1550 to 1850

Evidence

It becomes clear, then, that for the period between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, it was an African tradition that grounded collective resistance by Blacks to slavery and colonial imperialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 833

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the argument Robinson has been building across earlier chapters that the Black radical tradition derives from African heritage, not Western Marxism — central to the reader’s stated question on the tradition’s origin. — connects to: African culture formed a shared shield against dehumanization in the New World; Western scholars long denied any coherent tradition of Black radicalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 393; African heritage, not slavery, defined the Black condition (+24 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 833

Broader Connections

• Early Black resistance sought survival and consciousness-preservation, not revolution #corroborates (0.80)
• The Black radical tradition springs from a conserved African worldview under enslavement #corroborates (0.75)
• Early African revolts sought to preserve a past, not transform the West #exemplifies (0.70)
• Black radicalism is an autonomous African response, not a Black variant of Western radicalism #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 395
• Enslaved women preserved their humanity by clinging to traditional African practices #corroborates (0.65) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 380
• The Black radical tradition derives from its own cultural synthesis, not imported theory. #corroborates (0.65)
• Black radical violence turned inward toward collective being rather than outward against the system #expands (0.60)
• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology #corroborates (0.60)
• Black outrage at racial capitalism springs from an African-rooted epistemological standard #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1428
• Enslaved women preserved their sanity by adapting smuggled African cultural practices #corroborates (0.60) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 47
• The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition. #expands (0.55)
• African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements #expands (0.55)