The world system’s divergent regional conditions shaped slave revolt prospects differently

Evidence

In the same decades of the nineteenth century, the world system showed a very different and apparently contradictory face to the British West Indies. In Jamaica, and the older colonies, no combination of the events that were proving so fortunate for Brazil, Cuba, and other sugar-producing areas seemed to favor the colonial sugar producers. Having lost domination of the sugar market in the latter half of the previous century, their fortunes continued to plummet, buffeted by such diverse occurrences as market glut, drought, soil depletion, overproduction, and the re-routing of capital. Even the power of the West Indian planters was seen to turn against its possessors: the mercantilist trade restrictions that had preserved the English “home market” for them now became the limit to which they were bound. Technology even railed against them with the development by French interests of beet sugar to challenge the cane. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 773

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the book’s core causal claim about how capitalist world-system dynamics differentially positioned slave economies — echoes the Brazilian/Industrial Revolution point two paragraphs prior. — connects to: The same slaveholding institution signals prosperity or stagnation by local context — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2319; Slave cultural heterogeneity suppressed collective rebellion, channeling resistance into individual acts — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1372; Slave linguistic heterogeneity at the Cape suppressed collective rebellion (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The same slaveholding institution signals prosperity or stagnation by local context — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2319; Slave cultural heterogeneity suppressed collective rebellion, channeling resistance into individual acts — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1372; Slave linguistic heterogeneity at the Cape suppressed collective rebellion (+1 more)