Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth

Evidence

From whatever vantage point one chooses, the relationship between slave labor, the slave trade, and the weaving of the early capitalist economies is apparent. Whatever were the alternatives, the point remains: historically, slavery was a critical foundation for capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British condominium urban labor demand created a feared detribalized slave-descendant class; The triangular trade’s profits directly financed the Industrial Revolution in England — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 431; The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements (+14 more)

Related

• The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements (similarity 0.87)
• The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. (similarity 0.85)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.85)
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on (similarity 0.84)
• The slave trade financed Britain’s industrial revolution while underdeveloping Africa’s economies (similarity 0.83)
• Slave-produced wealth funded the mother countries’ entire development (similarity 0.83)
• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. (similarity 0.83)
• British condominium urban labor demand created a feared detribalized slave-descendant class (similarity 0.83)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (similarity 0.83)
• American territorial expansion, slavery, and cotton drove the Industrial Revolution symbiotically (similarity 0.83)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.83)
• British industrial wealth derived directly from American slave labor (similarity 0.82)
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage (similarity 0.82)
• The triangular trade’s profits directly financed the Industrial Revolution in England (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism #corroborates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584
• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. #corroborates (0.65) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82
• British capitalism ended West Indian slavery but thrived on American, Cuban, and Brazilian slavery #expands (0.60)
• Caribbean sugar colonies drove the rise of Atlantic capitalism #corroborates (0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 75
• Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth #qualifies (0.55)