Enslaved Africans carried complete cultural systems across the Atlantic

Evidence

However, 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. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 604

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core premise of the Black radical tradition: culture and consciousness traveled with the enslaved.