Medieval Mediterranean slavery provided the full model for Atlantic slavery

Evidence

This variety of uses to which slaves were put illustrates clearly the degree to which medieval colonial slavery served as a model for Atlantic colonial slavery. Slave manpower had been employed in the Italian colonies in the Mediterranean for all the kinds of work it would be burdened with in the Atlantic colonies. The only important change was that the white victims of slavery were replaced by a much greater number of African Negroes, captured in raids or bought by traders. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 159

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Medieval Mediterranean slavery was the template for Atlantic colonial slavery. (similarity 0.95)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery directly prefigured Atlantic colonial slavery. (similarity 0.93)
• Medieval slavery in the Mediterranean ran in many directions, not just one. (similarity 0.87)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery foreshadowed Atlantic colonial slavery (similarity 0.86)
• Portugal monopolized the Atlantic slave trade until 1570 (similarity 0.83)
• Italian colonial systems in the Mediterranean foreshadowed Iberian and Dutch empires (similarity 0.83)
• Slaves were medieval Mediterranean traders’ most valuable commodity. (similarity 0.82)
• Italian city states pioneered the colonial model later adopted by Spain, Portugal, and Holland (similarity 0.82)
• Italian city-states pioneered colonial methods later copied by Iberian and Dutch empires (similarity 0.81)
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage (similarity 0.81)
• British slavery followed Iberian and Dutch models in substituting human capital for commodities (similarity 0.81)
• Europe’s intrusion into African history has deformed both civilizations (similarity 0.79)
• Islamic slavery conventions were not adopted into the emerging European world system (similarity 0.79)
• The chattel treatment of African labor had clear European precedents. (similarity 0.79)
• European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Mediterranean slavery foreshadowed Atlantic colonial slavery #corroborates (0.90)
• Italian colonial systems in the Mediterranean foreshadowed Iberian and Dutch empires #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1841