Racial repression shifted form with each change in Black labor exploitation

Evidence

The formal endings of slave systems of production in the nineteenth century marked the beginnings of a profound reorganization of the capitalist world system. In Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, through the deepening penetrations of monopoly capitalism and the impositions of hegemonic colonialisms, slaves were displaced as a source of cheap labor power by peasants and migrant laborers. In Africa, whereas the slave trade had dislocated the reproductive cycles of certain social formations along the coasts of West and southern Africa, the “new imperialism” of monopoly capitalism demanded a more destructive form of appropriation and exploitation. The colonial state parasitized the peasants of the continent’s agrarian hinterlands, transforming traditional economic sectors from the project of reproduction into the source and support of forcibly recruited labor and the sites of cash-crop monoculture and the extraction of minerals and raw materials. To the extent that wage labor expanded in Africa, its level of support was limited to maintenance and not reproduction of labor. 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)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 253; Black labor exploitation persisted in new forms beyond slavery’s legal end.; Black labor exploitation continued in new forms after slavery’s legal abolition (+6 more)

Related

• Black labor exploitation persisted in new forms beyond slavery’s legal end. (similarity 0.95)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms (similarity 0.91)
• Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies (similarity 0.91)
• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.87)
• Racial repression shifted form in lockstep with Blacks’ changing labor roles under capitalism (similarity 0.87)
• Depression and slavery-era crises both fundamentally transformed capitalist relations (similarity 0.85)
• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race (similarity 0.84)
• Black labor exploitation continued past emancipation through colonial and wage regimes (similarity 0.84)
• Black nationalism arose natively from Black super-exploitation in the United States (similarity 0.83)
• Proletarianization was replacing Black Christian resignation with angry consciousness. (similarity 0.83)
• Post-1877 racial division of labor was engineered to stabilize capitalist wealth (similarity 0.83)
• Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system (similarity 0.83)
• Black resistance in the Caribbean shifted political power but incomplete autonomy (similarity 0.82)
• Marronage gave way to community-based resistance as plantation capitalism expanded (similarity 0.81)
• Black labor’s post-slavery mobility opened its subcultures to ruling-class penetration (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Black labor exploitation continued in new forms after slavery’s legal abolition #corroborates (0.85)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies #expands (0.65) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• Black historiography was a defensive response to post-Emancipation labor repression #expands (0.60)
• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race #expands (0.55)
• Exploitation’s contradictions across the Black world produced radical ideologues. #expands (0.55)