US Slavery in historical and global context

Replying to the mis-teachings of critical race theory

    In my last two posts, I reviewed the sixteenth century Iberian conquest of the region today known as Latin America; and the European conquest of vast regions of Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia from 1750 to 1914.  This review provides a historical and global context, from which it is immediately evident that African slavery in the U.S South was not the only form of coerced labor in the modern world.  As seen in the previous posts, other forms of forced labor, in addition to African slavery in America, included the encomienda (replaced by the equally abusive repartimiento) in Latin America; and coerced cash crop labor through various mechanisms in vast regions of the world, including Eastern Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.  Ireland, too, can be included, inasmuch as Ireland was the first step in English conquest and peripheralization, a fact recognized by the great African leader and intellectual Kwame Nkrumah. 

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