Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people.

Evidence

This was a revolutionary consciousness that proceeded from the whole historical experience of Black people and not merely from the social formations of capitalist slavery or the relations of production of colonialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 832

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the strongest version of the book’s thesis: the tradition’s epistemology is not a product of slavery or colonialism’s class relations but of a pre-existing African cultural totality.