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Plantation capitalism

The Atlantic slave trade’s direct link to the rise of plantation capitalism, European industrialization and the racial order of the Americas.

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Jan 28, 2026
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We’re Africans in America before Indians or white people

The claim that "ns were in America before Indians or white people" bundles two different ideas: the deep human origin of all non‑Africans in Africa (a widely supported scientific consensus) and specif...

Jan 13, 2026

Why is the Trans-Saharan slave trade ignored while the Trans-Atlantic slave trade emphasized?

The trans-Saharan slave trade is relatively sidelined in popular memory for reasons that include differences in scale, documentary and archival visibility, and the political and moral weight of the Ne...

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