The Black radical tradition produced its individual leaders rather than vice versa

Evidence

The Registry, though, was only the immediate cause, slavery the more enduring one. Recall, almost one hundred years earlier, in Jamaica, another Nanny, the leader of the Windward Maroons, had similarly distinguished herself. The first Nanny had left her name on the map of Jamaica, Nanny Town, but her other “possessions” she shared. Among them were the ethos of the Black radical tradition. Of course, it had not really belonged to her. Indeed, if possession were ever at issue, it would be the other way around. The tradition had produced her as it did the Nanny of Barbados. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 800

Recall, almost one hundred years earlier, in Jamaica, another Nanny, the leader of the Windward Maroons, had similarly distinguished herself. The first Nanny had left her name on the map of Jamaica, Nanny Town, but her other “possessions” she shared. Among them were the ethos of the Black radical tradition. Of course, it had not really belonged to her. Indeed, if possession were ever at issue, it would be the other way around. The tradition had produced her as it did the Nanny of Barbados. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 800

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the core claim that the tradition precedes and produces individual figures — an early boundary-definition of what the Black radical tradition is.
• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion that the tradition possessed its exemplars, not the reverse, is a paradigm-level reframe of how to read resistance history — individuals as products of a tradition rather than its authors.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 800
• XREF: connects to: Black radicalism matured largely unconscious of itself as a unified tradition; Black radicalism evolved without conscious self-awareness as a tradition; The radical intelligentsia found, not invented, the Black Radical Tradition (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• The radical intelligentsia found, not invented, the Black Radical Tradition #corroborates (0.90)
• The three intellectuals articulated rather than invented the Black radical idea #corroborates (0.90)
• Black radicalism matured largely unconscious of itself as a unified tradition #corroborates (0.80)
• Black radicalism evolved without conscious self-awareness as a tradition #corroborates (0.80)