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

Biko:

I'm totally with Du Bois on the goal of the " Slave Trade"  If you look at my other posting in this thread it could not legitimately be called a trade because of the defective  economic theory of value involved in which human value was bastardized and delegitimated.  Yes legal cover was given for the new mathe-magical theory of human value to facilitate the intended goal.

All the work of the abolitionists was part of the whole gambit of using the mass uprooting of population to develop a certain part of the world then delegitimate the trade afterwards without sharing the continuing proceeds with the dispossessed  in an equitable manner.

This was why the first anti- capitalist in western discourse  (my friend  the Nazarene and allegorist) called on the rich man to first give up ALL his riches before following him declaring that it is easier for the camel to enter the eye of the needle than for the rich man to enter the kingdom of God.  Dubious western capitalist Christians pretend not to understand the import of this call.

OAA

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Date: 07/04/2019 20:46 (GMT+00:00)

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: "Science's Debt to theSlave  Trade"

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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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