European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally

Evidence

Du Bois was arguing that once slavery was addressed in comprehensive terms, in world-historical terms, its true nature was revealed. Beneath its appearance as a “feudal agrarianism” lay the real relation of slavery to the emergence of modern capitalism. As America was a critical subsector of this developing system, the conflicts between American creed and reality, the contradictions of American society, the distortions of its social structures and political institutions ensued from its dependence on slavery and would resound throughout the system into the twentieth century. Slavery, then, was not a historical aberration, it was not a “mistake” in an otherwise bourgeois democratic age. It was, and its imprints continued to be, systemic. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 937 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage; Africa supplied slave labor because its region lay outside Europe’s world-economy; Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 937 (+7 more)

Related

• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on (similarity 0.90)
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage (similarity 0.90)
• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. (similarity 0.89)
• Africa supplied slave labor because its region lay outside Europe’s world-economy (similarity 0.88)
• Madeira’s sugar plantations first institutionalized slave labor as capitalist commodity production (similarity 0.88)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism (similarity 0.87)
• American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor (similarity 0.87)
• The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. (similarity 0.86)
• Du Bois concluded slavery and capitalism were systemically linked and periphery drove revolution (similarity 0.86)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.86)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (similarity 0.85)
• Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery foreshadowed Atlantic colonial slavery (similarity 0.84)
• Slavery’s advantage, not intrinsic superiority, let European nations become capitalist superpowers. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. #corroborates (0.92) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 937
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage #corroborates (0.90)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition #corroborates (0.88)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on #expands (0.72)
• 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. #expands (0.70)
• Madeira’s sugar plantations first institutionalized slave labor as capitalist commodity production #exemplifies (0.65)