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The massive theft that was slavery is the tainted wellspring of American capitalism. In the United States, capital—accrued for the wealthiest over generations—was built on the lacerated backs of Black people. To appreciate the magnitude of this, we must remember that cotton was the material center of the maturing Industrial Revolution. What oil and computerization are to our current economy, cotton was to the nineteenth-century industrial economy.https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506472652/Naming-Neoliberalism" target="_blank"> Naming Neoliberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age, 7