Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: "Science's Debt to the Slave Trade"

The Brits outlawed it in 1807. I guess that was 400 years late, if we date the first documented

 evidence of human trafficking in its Euro-African context,   to 1441 with  the Portuguese

Antao Goncalves. 

 Agreed. Max Weber got it wrong -  and Marx got it right, in his Communist Manifesto.

I suspect that  many started to hate Marx from the moment he talked about "primitive accumulation" 

and the "turning of Africa into a commercial warren for the hunting of black skins."

Some never forgave him for that statement.

Williams, Rodney and also  Inikori   (and Braudel) helped us to put  names, places and data to it all.

We are now on to the  European and American   universities and museums  that benefitted

 and the  scientific disciplines and institutions that thrived  from it.

GE

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department, Central Connecticut State University
www.africahistory.net

http://web.ccsu.edu/afstudy/archive.html

Chief Editor- "Africa Update"

www.vimeo.com/gloriaemeagwali

Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries

2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies

 University of Texas at Austin

2019   Distinguished Africanist Award                   

New York African Studies Association

 

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From: 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: "Science's Debt to the Slave Trade"

 

Slave trade was actually outlawed by many states in the US from the 17th Century onwards out of fear that the trafficking of more Africans would lead to more insurrections long before the abolition by Britain. W.E.B. Du Bois argued in his doctoral dissertation that the African Slave Trade was suppressed by law in America from the start and so it could not have been as legal as historians want us to believe. Gloria is right that it was not a trade. Walter Rodney called it kidnapping, warfare, deceit and he demonstrated how science and technology developed in Europe based on the huge profits from trafficking Africans. Eric Williams argued the same thesis in his doctoral dissertation, Capitalism and Slavery. In ignorance, Max Weber argued that it was The Protestant Ethic that produced the Spirit of Capitalism. No be so.

Biko

On Sunday, 7 April 2019, 14:07:04 GMT-4, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

Gloria,
Was "the despicable slave trade" illegal at the time of its practice?

CAO.

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