Thinking Deeply
In Africa, Africans, and Historical Distortions, we took a broad look at how anti-Black racism is a farce. It was just a pretext to cover European and colonial plunder. The myth-making not only enabled centuries of exploitation and terror, but it also continues to provide a sort of plausible deniability to those that profited. They were just doing what was lawful and acceptable at the time, after all.
Too often people don’t bother to think about the wealth that was created from the labor of kidnapped Africans and their progeny. If the Slave Trade was not profitable, it would not have existed. Without wealth from slavery, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. Capitalism itself would have never existed without slavery. Racism had a purpose which is profit.
Half Told
As we know, many White Americans will do anything to maintain their grip on all the wealth generated from the labor and intellectual toil of slaves. Black prosperity is anathema to this segment of the country. It simply should not be.
In the below video, historian Edward E. Baptist discusses the connection between slavery and capitalism in the United States based on his book "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.” It is an eye-opening lecture that will surely paint a clearer picture of the connections between White wealth and U.S. chattel slavery.