[lbo-talk] vaca reading

[c b]

Factoid I learned recently, Latin America bought more slaves from
Africa than North America and there is a whole Afro-Latin movement in
DC's public university to research this. Hail to them.

CG

^^^^^^^^
CB; Yes, Brazil has a larger proportion African derived population
than the US .  The first European slave traders were the Portugese.
I think slavery was abolished in Cuba after it was in the US.

Notice _Latin_ America. There the Roman roots are explicit..

I don't see slavery and colonialism as inherent in the logic of then
new wage-labor/capital relation.  That's the materialism of historical
materialism. It's the historical part of historical materialism form
when the slavery and colonialist systems that started circa 14 and
1500.