Post-slavery capitalism extended domination to tropical labor.

Evidence

When raw material could not be raised in a country like the United States, it could be raised in the tropics and semi-tropics under a dictatorship of industry, commerce and manufacture and with no free farming class. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1077

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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