European colonial dominion expanded from 35 to 85 percent of Earth’s surface

Evidence

Still England was not alone, nor the English unique in having arrived at a point where the appearance of representatives of the “Negro race” was convenient. One simple measure of the importance of African labor that lay behind the construction of this creature is that “before the nineteenth century … for 300 years more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic each year.” Only the accumulated interests and mercantile activities of the ruling classes and bourgeoisies of Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Britain could have accomplished such a massive scale of exploitation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 432 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial expansion was foreclosed by ideology and prior European division of the world; For 300 years more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic annually — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 432; European colonization triggered demographic collapse and forced removal that shattered existing Indigenous societies — The Social Consequences of Colonialism

Related

• For 300 years more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic annually (similarity 0.87)
• More Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic before the nineteenth century. (similarity 0.82)
• African migration to the Americas outnumbered European migration into the nineteenth century (similarity 0.81)
• Denying colonial subjects the rights Europeans fought for required racializing them as essentially fixed (similarity 0.79)
• Portuguese expansion into Africa produced the historical category of the Negro (similarity 0.79)
• Europe’s intrusion into African history has deformed both civilizations (similarity 0.79)
• Portugal’s African expansion inaugurated the Age of Discovery and produced the Negro (similarity 0.79)
• European colonialism freed capital accumulation from Europe’s material limits (similarity 0.79)
• European racialism justified colonial expansion and rule (similarity 0.79)
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later (similarity 0.78)
• European empires annexed over eight million square miles in fifteen years (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial expansion was foreclosed by ideology and prior European division of the world #qualifies (0.75)
• For 300 years more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic annually #complicates (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 432