Forced transport across the Atlantic made the colony the Africans’ new birthplace

Evidence

At the very same moment European labor was being thrown off the land and herded into a newly formed industrial order, Robinson argues, African labor was being drawn into the orbit of the world system through the transatlantic slave trade. European civilization, either through feudalism or the nascent industrial order, did not simply penetrate African village culture. To understand the dialectic of African resistance to enslavement and exploitation, in other words, we need to look outside the orbit of capitalism—we need to look West and Central African culture. Robinson observes, “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” (121). — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 20 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forcibly transported Africans became citizens by their coerced relocation; African slaves carried their full cultures and consciousness into the New World — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 20; Sugar’s labor demands drove the English to mass importation of African slaves (+3 more)

Related

• Enslavement transferred complete African ontological and social systems to the Americas (similarity 0.85)
• Enslaved Africans carried coherent cultures into the New World, not merely labor. (similarity 0.85)
• Enslaved Africans carried intact cultural systems, not deculturated minds, into slavery (similarity 0.84)
• African slaves carried their full cultures and consciousness into the New World (similarity 0.84)
• Enslaved Africans carried complete cultural systems across the Atlantic (similarity 0.84)
• Forcibly transported Africans became citizens by their coerced relocation (similarity 0.84)
• Enslaved Africans carried their cultures and consciousness into slavery, contradicting primitive accumulation (similarity 0.83)
• Sugar’s labor demands drove the English to mass importation of African slaves (similarity 0.83)
• British shipping alone transported 3.7 million Africans across the Atlantic (similarity 0.82)
• The mass importation of Africans overturned earlier casual Iberian racial structures in the colonies (similarity 0.82)
• For 300 years more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic annually (similarity 0.81)
• Transported African consciousness infected the slave system with contradiction (similarity 0.81)
• African culture formed a shared shield against dehumanization in the New World (similarity 0.81)
• Constant new African imports produced syncretic new cultures rather than preserved African ones. (similarity 0.80)
• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved Africans carried their cultures and consciousness into slavery, contradicting primitive accumulation #contradicts (0.70)
• African slaves carried their full cultures and consciousness into the New World #contradicts (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 20
• Sugar’s labor demands drove the English to mass importation of African slaves #expands (0.60)