British capitalism ended West Indian slavery but thrived on American, Cuban, and Brazilian slavery

Evidence

Du Bois was arguing that once slavery was addressed in comprehensive terms, in world-historical terms, its true nature was revealed. Beneath its appearance as a “feudal agrarianism” lay the real relation of slavery to the emergence of modern capitalism. As America was a critical subsector of this developing system, the conflicts between American creed and reality, the contradictions of American society, the distortions of its social structures and political institutions ensued from its dependence on slavery and would resound throughout the system into the twentieth century. Slavery, then, was not a historical aberration, it was not a “mistake” in an otherwise bourgeois democratic age. It was, and its imprints continued to be, systemic. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 937 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on; Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth; Du Bois reconceptualized American slavery as a subsystem of world capitalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 931 (+10 more)

Related

• Du Bois concluded slavery and capitalism were systemically linked and periphery drove revolution (similarity 0.86)
• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. (similarity 0.86)
• Du Bois reconceptualized American slavery as a subsystem of world capitalism (similarity 0.84)
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on (similarity 0.84)
• British abolition targeted Brazil to destroy its competing economy (similarity 0.84)
• American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor (similarity 0.83)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.83)
• British capitalism thrived on Brazilian slavery despite official abolitionism (similarity 0.83)
• Britain profited from American and Brazilian slavery while destroying its own (similarity 0.83)
• Slaves and agrarian workers, not industrial workers, attacked capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (similarity 0.82)
• European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally (similarity 0.82)
• Crises in capitalism do not inevitably dissolve pre-capitalist modes. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.82)
• British anti-slavery rhetoric masked thriving profits in other slave economies (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it #corroborates (0.80)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition #corroborates (0.75)
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage #corroborates (0.75)
• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 937
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584
• Du Bois reconceptualized American slavery as a subsystem of world capitalism #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 931
• English capital subsidized both Brazilian independence and slave imports #expands (0.60)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms #expands (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434