[WS:] It started much earlier with Arab slave trading in 8th century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade#Historical_and_geographical_context_of_the_Arab_slave_trade.
Portuguese and other Europeans merely "improved" on this practice when they saw the emerging opportunity in the New World.
Wojtek
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:41 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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