Colonial slavery and the Holocaust share racially evaporated death

Evidence

What links Haiti, as the figure of European slavery and of colonialism more broadly, to Auschwitz, then, is racially profiled, produced but also evaporated death. The death of Middle Passage a formative step on the path to the camps. Brutalization at the tip of the whip, the chicotte, the leather boot: Port au Prince, 1794, Leopoldville 1894, Auschwitz 1944. Racially entwined in conception and production, ends and effects. But death denied, refused, at both ends. And refused through race. Death dehumanized doesn’t add up. The slaughter of brutes reduces to the instrumentalities of labor replacement and body evaporation. How to find able bodies and how to rid itself of disabled ones. How to “factorize” labor and “fabricate corpses.” — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 845 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial peoples suffered the same dehumanizing treatment as ancient slaves; Modern ethnoracial massacre magnitudes match or exceed those of chattel slavery — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 22; Colonial violence foreshadowed the Holocaust as a preliminary laboratory (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Slavery and Holocaust deaths are linked by racialized and denied death #expands (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 845