Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply

Evidence

From whatever vantage point one chooses, the relationship between slave labor, the slave trade, and the weaving of the early capitalist economies is apparent. Whatever were the alternatives, the point remains: historically, slavery was a critical foundation for capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements; Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on; The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. (+14 more)

Related

• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (similarity 0.89)
• The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements (similarity 0.88)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.87)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism (similarity 0.86)
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on (similarity 0.86)
• The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. (similarity 0.86)
• Africa supplied slave labor because its region lay outside Europe’s world-economy (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.86)
• Madeira’s sugar plantations first institutionalized slave labor as capitalist commodity production (similarity 0.86)
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage (similarity 0.86)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms (similarity 0.86)
• European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. (similarity 0.86)
• Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism (similarity 0.85)
• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance #expands (0.70)
• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. #corroborates (0.70) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82
• The slave trade supplied the cause that turned racialism into the Negro #corroborates (0.50)
• Black mass culture evolved from resistance to slavery and a racial social order #expands (0.50)