Labor mobility exposed Black subcultures to ruling-class languages and consciousness.

Evidence

Black labor’s new mobility, organization, and adaptability also meant that the subcultures within which it had been historically enveloped were subject more often to the intrusions of material and ideographic elements from the agents of the economically determinative social order. Though it might be correctly argued that much of this penetration was at first incidental, some of it clearly was not. Language, that is the languages and consciousness of rule and the ruling classes, was an instance of the latter. These accretions would have profound effects on the ideologues of the Black world. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 847

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The mechanism by which economic reorganization of Black labor after emancipation drives cultural penetration by ruling-class ideology — language as the vehicle — is a dense, nuanced account of how the ground was prepared for the intelligentsia’s formation.