Re: RE: Re: Capitalism as slavery and colonialism

[Brad DeLong]

>I deny that the Arab slavery and slave trade in the 10th c. was anything like
>the European Atlantic Capitalist Enslavement from the mid-15th c. 
>The structural
>relation of the European Capitalist Atlantic Enslavement Industry to 
>capitalist
>production, industry, finance, generalized commodity production and capital
>accumulation, merchant capital, etc. is clearly not mirrored by what was going
>on in East Africa, the Arab World.  How can capitalist plantation agriculture
>producing commodities for capitalist industry and integral to large scale
>capital accumulation be compared to slavery in the Arab World?
>
>Mat

In their effects on Africa the two trades look to have been very 
similar. But for the slaves themselves it *mattered* a lot: your life 
expectancy if you were sold to Arab slavers was about four times your 
life expectancy if you were sold to European slavers...


Brad DeLong