Black theorists of the twentieth century were formed by the phenomenology of slavery

Evidence

Their era began with the endings of slavery. They were, it might be said, the children of the slaves. The phenomenology of slavery formed and informed them. And in the vortex of its ending, more particularly in the wake of the social forces that compelled new and different situatings of Blacks and others destined to serve as labor forces, these theorists discovered their shared social and intellectual location. The twentieth century was for the most part their biographical station, but merely one site in the zone of their interrogation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 846

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the defining experiential ground — the phenomenology of slavery — from which the Black radical intelligentsia Robinson is about to profile emerged.