We Who Were Slaves. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bogues, Anthony
• Is Part Of: Souls. Volume 20:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 368
• Page End: 374
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: black radical tradition -- freedom -- labor process -- neoliberalism -- racial slavery -- thingfication; African Americans -- Periodicals; African Americans -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; African Americans -- History -- Periodicals; United States -- Race relations -- Periodicals; 305.896
• DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2019.1608108
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1099-9949

Abstract

Abstract : Working from the injunction of C. L. R. James about the requirement to understand the "new forms created in the context of slavery, " this essay argues that there is a political requirement for the study of the intellectual history and political thought of the African enslaved. The essay also notes that the Black enslaved body represented a distinct form of labor in which it produced commodities while itself being a "property in person." Such a historical process produced "thingfication, " and unique forms of domination and alternative frameworks of freedom.