> think the author must be very Eurocentric and indeed likely some kind of western supremacist.

_While_ elevating himself to the position of global perspective and non-European centric view. 

Also, he's specifically talking about places like Cape Verde and then in the Americas, where there were no established authorities to put a check on the extent of the slavery. 

I don't know the history of slavery, is that a meaningful distinction? Were African tribes selling conquered peoples to the European merchants nicer to their goods?

denlillaapan

“...a new and sinisterly consequential lesson: In zones from which escape was difficult and where no competing political authorities existed, a small number of Europeans could control large numbers of enslaved Africans. Imprisoning laborers, in fact, enabled entirely new forms of the productive uses of capital, sundered from worldly and religious authorities and from the common autonomies of rural cultivators the world over.” (p. 132)

What an extraordinary claim, as if slavery was something new, invented by European capitalism or especially benefitting European capitalism, when in reality slavery is as old as time itself and common across cultures.

I think the author must be very Eurocentric and indeed likely some kind of western supremacist.

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CAPITALISM Book Club #4: Interlude — We Need To Talk About Capital

> “...a new and sinisterly consequential lesson: In zones from which escape was difficult and where no competing political authorities existed, a small number of Europeans could control large numbers of enslaved Africans. Imprisoning laborers, in fact, enabled entirely new forms of the productive uses of capital, sundered from worldly and religious authorities and from the common autonomies of rural cultivators the world over.” (p. 132)

What an extraordinary claim, as if slavery was something new, invented by European capitalism or especially benefitting European capitalism, when in reality slavery is as old as time itself and common across cultures.

I think the author must be very Eurocentric and indeed likely some kind of western supremacist.