The Industrial Revolution’s demand for accumulation drove mass slavery and interethnic solidarity

Evidence

As it happened, the “misfortune” was the Industrial Revolution and the further development of the capitalist world system. Together their need for primitive accumulation translated into slavery on a massive scale. In Bahia in 1835, the inevitable result was “the brotherhood of the unfortunate.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 772

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Brotherhood of the unfortunate’ directly evidences the core thesis building toward this book’s chapter on capitalism and racial slavery. — connects to: American territorial expansion, slavery, and cotton drove the Industrial Revolution symbiotically — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 199