Excessive capitalism and economies based on ‘free-labor” or “normality’ of chattel slavery are at the center of governance for perpetuating the constructs of race, racism, racialization, patriarchy, and classism under the white-racist frame in American society. The political and economic foundation as systematized by the white-racial frame created a complex arrangement of institutionalized intergroup relations (alienation) that fostered the racialized identity of whiteness. Concrete material advantages created patterns of impoverishment and undeserved enrichment and white wealth and sociopolitical power. This encouraged the growth for social reproduction of oppression. Both the public and psychological wages of whiteness legitimized the societal specter of superiority and inferiority as justifiable. Hence, slavery in the Americas due to its expansion of commercial capitalism in a world market system remains distinguishable from Greco-Roman slavery in the ancient world. Wealth and prosperity from slavery built Britain and continental Europe as well as the U.S. Economic development and powerful slaveholders influenced the political structure from colonial America and the revolution, group terrorism, police states and exercise of police power, segregation and violence, economics, education, subjugation under at white republic both indirectly and directly. ‘Virtuous republicans’ led the embrace of consumerism of material goods as well as, beliefs, images, and narratives the supported their dominant racial frame.
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