Racial slavery and indentured labor made metropolitan Europe wealthy long before globalization.

Evidence

The histories of colonial conditions were constitutively tied to the racial histories of metropolitan shaping. The circulation of slave and indentured labor from Africa and Asia to metropolitan Europe and especially the Americas indicates the depth of those linkages. It reveals the causal connections between sources of labor supply, raw materials, and later markets for the making and selling of metropolitan goods, and so the source of metropolitan national wealth and at least economic wellbeing. Global connectivity, interactivity, and mutual constitutiveness were long in place before the notion of globalization became vogue. And racial understanding and its subjugating and exploitative effects were the fabric – that glove I mentioned metaphorically above – of this global connectedness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 92

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave labor underpinned the political and economic power of European empires; Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on; Slavery made Euro-American trade uniquely self-catalyzing before industrialization. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 873 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Slave labor underpinned the political and economic power of European empires #expands (0.85)
• Colonial labor flows and racial subjugation predated and founded modern globalization. #corroborates (0.84) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 92
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on #expands (0.82)
• Slavery made Euro-American trade uniquely self-catalyzing before industrialization. #corroborates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 873
• Colonial capitalism already created a world labor market before globalization #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3873
• Colonial wealth financed European industrialization, which then drove mass emigration #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3850
• New World slavery was a commercial system driven by global empires and world markets #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3847
• European capitalist hegemony reduced African labor to pawning across the world system #expands (0.75)