Diaspora Africans held potential for grand racial combination against Africa’s colonization

Evidence

The intra-African negro is clearly powerless to struggle successfully against personal enslavement, annexation, or volunteer (or fight for) protection of his territory. What we ask, will in the coming ages be the opinion and attitudes of the extra-Africans: ten millions in the Western hemisphere, dispersed so widely over the surface of the globe, apt apprentices in every conceivable department of civilised culture. Will these men remain for ever too poor, too isolated from one another, for grand racial combination, or will the naturally opulent cradle of their people, too long a place of violence and unholy greed, become at length the sacred watchword of a generation willing and able to conquer or perish under its inspiration. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1164

Categorization

• QUESTION: This 1888 text frames a proto-pan-Africanist question of diaspora unity against African colonization—early articulation worth tracing forward to later Black radical formulations.
• XREF: Jacob Thomas’s Froudacity anti-racist reply anticipates later anti-colonial textual rebuttals like C.L.R. James’s own; connects to reader’s interest in Black radical tradition’s intellectual origins. — connects to: Blacks were uniquely cast among alien groups as loyal potential allies — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 538