British condominium urban labor demand created a feared detribalized slave-descendant class

Evidence

The formal endings of slave systems of production in the nineteenth century marked the beginnings of a profound reorganization of the capitalist world system. In Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, through the deepening penetrations of monopoly capitalism and the impositions of hegemonic colonialisms, slaves were displaced as a source of cheap labor power by peasants and migrant laborers. In Africa, whereas the slave trade had dislocated the reproductive cycles of certain social formations along the coasts of West and southern Africa, the “new imperialism” of monopoly capitalism demanded a more destructive form of appropriation and exploitation. The colonial state parasitized the peasants of the continent’s agrarian hinterlands, transforming traditional economic sectors from the project of reproduction into the source and support of forcibly recruited labor and the sites of cash-crop monoculture and the extraction of minerals and raw materials. To the extent that wage labor expanded in Africa, its level of support was limited to maintenance and not reproduction of labor. In the New World there were also changes. The systems of reconstitution of Black communities were, as well, assaulted by forms of forced labor: peonage, share-cropping, and less than subsistence farming. Moreover, Black workers were subject to displacement from productive land and to publicly and privately organized campaigns of terror and intimidation. Ineluctably, resistance was propelled toward new forms, new consciousness, and new ideologies. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth; Slave working lives lasted only ten to twenty years under colonial conditions; Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434 (+1 more)

Related

• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.83)
• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth (similarity 0.83)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms (similarity 0.82)
• Post-1877 racial division of labor was engineered to stabilize capitalist wealth (similarity 0.80)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.80)
• Former southern Sudanese slaves formed a new urban political class under British rule (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.79)
• Depression and slavery-era crises both fundamentally transformed capitalist relations (similarity 0.79)
• The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements (similarity 0.79)
• Industrial capital dismantled the slave system it had built once slavery became unprofitable (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth #corroborates (0.45)
• Slave working lives lasted only ten to twenty years under colonial conditions #corroborates (0.40)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms #expands (0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. #complicates (0.40)