Marx’s primitive accumulation credited source societies with producing the enslaved

Evidence

Marx had meant by primitive accumulation that the piezas de Indias had been produced, materially and intellectually, by the societies from which they were taken and not by those by which they were exploited. The cargoes of the slave ships were real human beings, notwithstanding their manner of transport, the bills of ladino, the captains’ logs and trade account books that designated them otherwise. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 603

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what Marx meant by ‘primitive accumulation’ regarding enslaved labor origin.