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Transported African consciousness infected the slave system with contradiction

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aliases	@robinson_black_1983, loc. 605

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Transported African consciousness infected the slave system with contradiction

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This was the embryo of the demon that would be visited on the whole enterprise of primitive accumulation. It would be through the historical and social consciousness of these Africans that the trade in slaves and the system of slave labor was infected with its contradiction. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 605

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Transported African consciousness infected the slave system with contradiction
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African social consciousness contained the contradiction that would undermine slavery
Brazil's slaves were deliberately worked to death and replaced
Capitalism integrated Blacks into production while shielding them from bourgeois ideology
Enslaved Africans carried intact cultural systems, not deculturated minds, into slavery
Forced transport across the Atlantic made the colony the Africans' new birthplace
Medieval Mediterranean slavery directly prefigured Atlantic colonial slavery.
Cedric J. Robinson — Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson — Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

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Transported African consciousness infected the slave system with contradiction

Transported African consciousness infected the slave system with contradiction

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