Before Haiti and before American expansion, Madeira served as the experimental ground where plantation capitalism emerged and reshaped the modern economic order.
America’s Unbroken Foundation: How African-American History Shapes the Meaning of American Identity
America’s rise cannot be separated from the labor, sacrifice, and cultural force of those whose origins were deliberately erased through slavery. Today, historians and cultural analysts are increasingly examining whether the descendants of U.S. slavery represent not a hyphenated identity, but a foundational expression of what it means to be American.