The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements

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: Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization; Racialism preceded the slave trade and the Negro’s invention required a specific purpose; The slave trade supplied the cause that turned racialism into the Negro (+4 more)

Related

• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.88)
• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth (similarity 0.87)
• The slave trade gave racial ideology its specific object, creating the Negro (similarity 0.86)
• Racialism preceded the slave trade and the Negro’s invention required a specific purpose (similarity 0.84)
• The Negro category was constructed to justify Black labor’s centrality to capitalism (similarity 0.84)
• The black soul is a construct created by white civilization (similarity 0.83)
• The slave trade advanced European capitalism while underdeveloping Africa’s economies. (similarity 0.83)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• The link between capitalism’s growth and slave labor remains historically contested. (similarity 0.82)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.82)
• Black slave labor undergirded worldwide capitalist expansion. (similarity 0.82)
• Racial ideology predated and prepared for the creation of the Negro (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.82)
• The Negro problem is economic exploitation, not racial coexistence (similarity 0.81)
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth #corroborates (0.70)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism #corroborates (0.65) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584
• Racialism preceded the slave trade and the Negro’s invention required a specific purpose #contradicts (0.60)
• The slave trade supplied the cause that turned racialism into the Negro #complicates (0.60)
• Labor economics drove the legal invention of Blackness as property. #corroborates (0.60)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply #expands (0.60)