Britain profited from American and Brazilian slavery while destroying its own

Evidence

“We know that for all mercantile purposes England is one of the States, and that, in effect, we are partners with the Southern planter; we hold a bill of sale over his goods and chattels, his live and dead stock, and take a lion’s share in the profits of slavery; … we are clothing not only ourselves, but all the world besides, with the very cotton picked and cleaned by ‘Uncle Tom’ and his fellow-sufferers. It is our trade… .” British capitalism had destroyed West Indian slavery, but it continued to thrive on Brazilian, Cuban and American slavery. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 755

Categorization

• CANDY: The London Times 1857 editorial openly declaring Britain a partner of the Southern planter is a striking, quoteable fact.
• XREF: This is the core of racial capitalism as Robinson defines it — British capital as partner in New World slavery, central to the reader’s mapping of the tradition’s fall.