For 300 years more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic annually

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

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 432
• XREF: connects to: The 1444 Lagos auction inaugurated the systematic Atlantic slave trade — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4357; European colonial dominion expanded from 35 to 85 percent of Earth’s surface