Capitalism and Slavery in the Exceedingly Long Run

Bibliographic Data

ID23170491
AuthorsBarbara Lewis Solow
Year1988
Pages51-78
Publication date1988-03-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueBritish Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511572722.004
OpenAlexW2331352047
ISBN9780511572722
LanguageEN
Citations received14

In the Mediterranean, Europe had developed on a large scale the sugar industry learned from India and the Middle East. Important centres of production were Sicily and Cyprus, and the large plantation and large factory had evolved.... European experience with colonial labor [had evolved] based firstly on the Moorish domination of Spain and secondly on the Portuguese conquest of West Africa.... When Columbus set out for the New World, his equipment included the European wanderlust, a powerful economic impulse, the requisite technical aids, a dominant crusading motive, all backed by the necessary political organization. Above all he took with him the knowledge that Africa was a capacious reservoir of labor which could become (as Gilberto Freyre of Brazil has described the Negro) “the white man's greatest and most plastic collaborator in the task of agrarian colonization.”

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