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U.S. Slavery Was Uniquely Capitalist
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
20 Mar 2018
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Even on the left, the capitalist nature of US slavery is not well understood, said historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. “The commodification and capitalization of Black bodies is pretty unique to the United States,” she said. “Marx himself did not grasp it. Eurocentrism of analysis is a problem.”

Slavery in U.S.

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