>From my research, it is demonstrable that the chattel bond slavery system was >initiated by Columbus' landing in the hemisphere. He kidnapped people and >began the rudimentary slave system. Howard Zinn's PEOPLE'S HISTORY made this >clear in the first chapter. If we want to put it in Marxian terms, it was the >method of "primitive accumulation." The events of 1619 can and should be >marked as a historical moment of importance, as should the end of the Pequot >war in 1638 that initiated the slave system in New England. But things were >begun in 1492. Gerald Horne has argued in his latest book that the genesis in >North America dates back a century prior to 1619. Here's an interview I did >with him:
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