Driving force
Racial Capitalism (Profit)
The pursuit of profit as the engine of slavery, sharecropping, and prison labor.
Resources
The web
Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.
- profited from·ThreadConvict Leasing & Debt Peonage
After emancipation, the same profit motive re-enslaved Black men through the courts.
- enabled·ThreadChattel Slavery
Slavery was, above all, an engine of profit.
- documented by (incoming)·ArticleThe Tulsa Race Massacre
Greenwood's destruction shows how Black wealth was violently targeted.