Proletarianization was replacing Black Christian resignation with angry consciousness.

Evidence

In the New World there were also changes. The systems of reconstitution of Black communities were, as well, assaulted by forms of forced labor: peonage, share-cropping, and less than subsistence farming. Moreover, Black workers were subject to displacement from productive land and to publicly and privately organized campaigns of terror and intimidation. Ineluctably, resistance was propelled toward new forms, new consciousness, and new ideologies. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Black radicals resigned from Communist parties when doctrine dominated Black people’s needs.; Black radical violence turned inward toward collective being rather than outward against the system; Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434

Broader Connections