Manuela Malasaña on Nostr: What was so capitalistic about the Atlantic slave trade vs the ancient Roman slave ...

What was so capitalistic about the Atlantic slave trade vs the ancient Roman slave trade for example was that the Atlantic slave trade was turbocharged by relatively newly introduced financial instruments (stocks, bonds, futures) incentivizing wealthy Europeans who lived in nations in which slavery was illegal to invest in the slave trade to get a slice of the pie
You see here how capitalism - CAPITAL - made something already bad so much worse