CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY
TEXTS AND SOURCES: THE LOVE OF LIBERTY
| . . . the invaluable
workforce formed by those men and women was employed to give a cheap start
to a capitalist economy whose imperialistic character, here in the form of
colonialism, also crushed their descendants. The slave trade not only
sustained the expansion and the dominance of the Euro-American economy by
selling the children of Africa, at the same time it exposed the economy of
Africa to its further depredations.
Claude Meillassoux Reproduced with authorization of UNESCO ©UNESCO 1997 www.unesco.org/culture |