Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth

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• The link between capitalism’s growth and slave labor remains historically contested. (similarity 0.87)
• Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man. (similarity 0.83)
• Historical materialism fails to capture Black historical being as more than opposition to capital (similarity 0.83)
• Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves (similarity 0.83)
• European plutocrats tried to reconcile anachronistic demographics with ultra-modern production. (similarity 0.83)
• Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.82)
• Critics doubted Du Bois’s Marxism went beyond Marx’s pages on English slave-trade wealth (similarity 0.82)
• Engels rejected the view that the economic factor is the sole determinant of history. (similarity 0.82)
• Former planters misjudged ex-slaves as unchanged by ten years of revolution. (similarity 0.82)
• Circassian slave supply collapsed as African slavery drew British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.82)
• Wright saw capitalism’s destruction coming from its own brutalized social force (similarity 0.81)
• Historical materialism fails to capture the full historical being of Black peoples. (similarity 0.81)
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions (similarity 0.81)
• Slavery gains historical meaning only when read as labor, not as bondage. (similarity 0.81)
• United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.81)