The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
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trumpeted forth as triumph of
English statecraft that at the Peace
of Utrecht, England extorted from
the Spaniards by the Asiento treaty
the privilege of being allowed to ply
the Negro-trade until then only
carried on between Africa and the
English West Indies, between Africa
and Spanish America as well. Eng
land thereby acquired the right of
supplying Spanish America until
1743 with 1890 Negroes yearly.
Liverpool Responsibility" is the Pin
dar of the slave-trade, which "has
conceded with that spirit of bold
adventure which has characterized
the trade Of Liverpool and rapidly
carried it to it's present state of
prosperity; has occasioned vast en-
ployment for shipping and sailors,
and greatly augmented the demand
for the manufactures of this coun-
try"
whilst the cotton industry intro
duced child-slavery in England, it
gave in the United States a stimulus
to the transformation of the earlier,
more or less patriarchal slavery, into
system of commercial exploitation.
In fact, the yelled slavery of the
for its pedestal, slavery pure and
simple in the new world" Qbid, p
784-5)
When the futher development of
the system of capitalist wage slavery
demanded the abolition of chattel
slavery, this was accomplished ruth
lessly by the capitalists against the
opposition of the Shareholders.
While the capitalist exploiters pro-
claimed "liberty and equality" for
the black slaves, they carefully and
deliberately maintained the system
of racial caste oppression under new
forms as necessary part of their
system for the exploitation Of the
labor-power of the black masses and
for the division of the white workers
against the Negro workers in order
to secure the exploitation and de-
graduation of the entire working
class, and the supremacy of their
own tyrannous class rule.
With the development of capt.
talism into its final stage, i'm
perialism, the race problem becomes
still more acute. Africa is par
titioned among the European i'm
perialist powers and the African
peoples are subjugated and exploited
They are ruthlessly appropriated
from the land especially from those
areas which the European regard as
suitable for themselves and are en-
shaved under compulsory labor sys-
TENS, hut taxes, pass laws and the
like. They are mercilessly driven to
death in the gold, diamond and metal
mines, and on the rubber, cocoa and
cotton farms of the states. The are
compelled to do the most taxing and
disagreeable manual labor and are
prevented in certain sections from
doing any skilled work whatsoever.
They are Segregated, abused, ostra-
cized and massacred. The i'm
perialist powers tighten their grip
upon the Negro peoples of Haiti,
the West Indies, South and Central
America.
The condition of the Negro masses
in America grows steadily worse as
the racial caste system spreads more
and more into the North and West,
becoming daily more deeply in
trenched in the life of the national.
Large sections of the white workers
Of Europe, America and Africa are
bribed with a share of the i'm
perialist spoils drawn out of the toll
and degradation of the Negro
masses, and are filled with white
imperialist prejudice against these
workers. The social development Of
the system of racial caste oppres-
sion clearly proves that it, is rooted
in the economic exploitation of the
capitalist imperialist class system.
Race oppression is a form of CAPT.
talist imperialist class oppression.
The Negro problem is basically a
labor problem. The labor problem is
organically bound up with the Negro
problem. The Negro problem cannot
be solved save through the solution
Of the labor problem. The labor
problem cannot be solved unless the
race pxQblsm il. solved. ls11 1e1