Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on

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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave trading rescued the Mediterranean bourgeoisie from eclipse by northern merchants; European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally; Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434 (+25 more)

Related

• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage (similarity 0.91)
• European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally (similarity 0.90)
• The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. (similarity 0.89)
• Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism (similarity 0.88)
• Madeira’s sugar plantations first institutionalized slave labor as capitalist commodity production (similarity 0.87)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism (similarity 0.87)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.86)
• Du Bois concluded slavery and capitalism were systemically linked and periphery drove revolution (similarity 0.86)
• Africa supplied slave labor because its region lay outside Europe’s world-economy (similarity 0.86)
• Slave trading rescued the Mediterranean bourgeoisie from eclipse by northern merchants (similarity 0.85)
• Slavery’s advantage, not intrinsic superiority, let European nations become capitalist superpowers. (similarity 0.85)
• Slavery made Euro-American trade uniquely self-catalyzing before industrialization. (similarity 0.84)
• British capitalism ended West Indian slavery but thrived on American, Cuban, and Brazilian slavery (similarity 0.84)
• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage #corroborates (0.80)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition #corroborates (0.80)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584
• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth #corroborates (0.75)
• The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. #expands (0.70)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply #expands (0.70)
• British capitalism ended West Indian slavery but thrived on American, Cuban, and Brazilian slavery #expands (0.65)
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 556
• European capitalist hegemony reduced African labor to pawning across the world system #expands (0.60)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance #expands (0.60)
• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it #complicates (0.60)
• Africa supplied slave labor because its region lay outside Europe’s world-economy #expands (0.55)
• Madeira’s sugar plantations first institutionalized slave labor as capitalist commodity production #corroborates (0.55)
• American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor #qualifies (0.50)