English capital subsidized both Brazilian independence and slave imports
Evidence
Of course, it was new sources of capital invested directly and indirectly in Brazil’s trade and production that lay behind the massive slave imports of the period. And it was primarily an English merchant class (with support from Portuguese trade, American shipping, and other interests), anxious to dominate or monopolize a world market whose tropical commodities had been expropriated from their French competitors by the Haitian Revolution, which subsidized both the effort at political independence for Brazil from Portugal and the accelerating Africanization of Brazil’s economy. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 754
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Parallels Eric Williams’ capitalism-and-slavery thesis; links to earlier chapters on the structure of Atlantic capital.
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- Sugar’s labor demands drove the English to mass importation of African slaves (similarity 0.84)
- Wars crippling rival producers raised world prices, spiking Brazilian slave demand (similarity 0.83)
- Portugal’s imperial role masks a web of supranational commercial interests shaping African labor exploitation (similarity 0.82)
- British capitalism thrived on Brazilian slavery despite official abolitionism (similarity 0.82)
- Sugar cultivation’s labor hunger drove the English slave trade to Africa (similarity 0.82)
- Sugar’s labor demands pushed the English to enslave West Africans (similarity 0.81)
- Sugar’s labor demands drove England’s expansion into the West African slave trade. (similarity 0.81)
- Haitian Revolution crippled rivals and raised world sugar prices (similarity 0.81)
- Brazilian possession wars cut off Europe’s sugar supply and redirected Caribbean farming (similarity 0.81)
- Jamaica’s economic decline set industrial capital against slavery. (similarity 0.80)
- Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism (similarity 0.80)
- The slave trade financed Britain’s industrial revolution while underdeveloping Africa’s economies (similarity 0.80)
- English slave-trade dominance by 1700 grew from sugar-driven demand (similarity 0.80)