European capitalist hegemony reduced African labor to pawning across the world system

Evidence

As the capitalist strata of western Europe achieved political, social, and ideological maturity, their jockeying for hegemony over the world system reduced African labor in its homelands and in the New World peripheries to pawns of power. State banditry, as E. P. Thompson named it, became the modus operandi that weeded out the landed nobilities and integrated their survivors with the rising bourgeoisies. Intensive exploitation of labor became the basis for purchasing new sortings of intra-European domination. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 703

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• The super-exploitation of African labor was the key to colonial elites’ liberation (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.85)
• Africa supplied slave labor because its region lay outside Europe’s world-economy (similarity 0.85)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms (similarity 0.85)
• European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally (similarity 0.84)
• Depression and slavery-era crises both fundamentally transformed capitalist relations (similarity 0.84)
• Post-1877 racial division of labor was engineered to stabilize capitalist wealth (similarity 0.84)
• The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. (similarity 0.84)
• American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor (similarity 0.83)
• Africans were enslaved because they were outside Europe’s world-economy (similarity 0.83)
• Abolition of US slavery relocated capital to colonial slave agriculture globally (similarity 0.82)
• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalist expansion ran on coerced labor, not wage labor, outside Western Europe. (similarity 0.82)
• Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism (similarity 0.81)
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Africa supplied slave labor because its region lay outside Europe’s world-economy #expands (0.70)
• Africa was selected for slave labor because it sat outside Europe’s world-economy. #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1909
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply #complicates (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1429
• Du Bois reconceptualized American slavery as a subsystem of world capitalism #expands (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 931
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms #expands (0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434