Description of the New World fused into the classical idealization of the Golden World

Evidence

At the very same moment European labor was being thrown off the land and herded into a newly formed industrial order, Robinson argues, African labor was being drawn into the orbit of the world system through the transatlantic slave trade. European civilization, either through feudalism or the nascent industrial order, did not simply penetrate African village culture. To understand the dialectic of African resistance to enslavement and exploitation, in other words, we need to look outside the orbit of capitalism—we need to look West and Central African culture. Robinson observes, “Marx had not realized fully that the cargoes of laborers also contained African cultures, critical mixes and admixtures of language and thought, of cosmology and metaphysics, of habits, beliefs, and morality. These were the actual terms of their humanity. These cargoes, then, did not consist of intellectual isolates or deculturated Blacks—men, women, and children separated from their previous universe. African labor brought the past with it, a past that had produced it and settled on it the first elements of consciousness and comprehension” (121). — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 20 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Europe described the New World using its own preexisting categories and frameworks; Engravers reworked New World sketches into classical European conventions, taming their subjects — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 608; African slaves carried their full cultures and consciousness into the New World — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 20 (+2 more)

Related

• African slaves carried their full cultures and consciousness into the New World (similarity 0.84)
• Europe described the New World using its own preexisting categories and frameworks (similarity 0.83)
• Enslavement transferred complete African ontological and social systems to the Americas (similarity 0.82)
• African culture formed a shared shield against dehumanization in the New World (similarity 0.82)
• Enslaved Africans carried coherent cultures into the New World, not merely labor. (similarity 0.81)
• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.81)
• Forced transport across the Atlantic made the colony the Africans’ new birthplace (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved Africans carried intact cultural systems, not deculturated minds, into slavery (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved Africans carried their cultures and consciousness into slavery, contradicting primitive accumulation (similarity 0.79)
• The black soul is a construct created by white civilization (similarity 0.79)
• Europeans described the New World through preexisting Western conceptual categories (similarity 0.79)
• Europe’s intrusion into African history has deformed both civilizations (similarity 0.78)
• Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization (similarity 0.78)
• The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself (similarity 0.78)
• New World Africans favored spiritual preservation over violent confrontation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Columbus populated the New World with Plinian monsters and giants drawn from medieval romance. #expands (0.90)
• The dog-headed cannibal figure predates Columbus and was projected onto the New World. #expands (0.82)
• African slaves carried their full cultures and consciousness into the New World #contradicts (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 20