Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉<p>Ben Affleck got PBS to cover up the fact that an unnamed-in-the-article ancestor was a slave owner. I wonder if it was Thomas Affleck, whose publication The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book was a major influence on the use of the pushing system which, through unspeakable violence, allowed cotton planters to rapidly and continually increase the productivity of their slaves. </p><p>Thomas Affleck's work figures prominently in Caitlin Rosenthal's breakthrough work Accounting for Slavery, which traces the origin of modern management techniques, including Taylorism, back to methods employed on cotton plantations.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BenAffleck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BenAffleck</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThomasAffleck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasAffleck</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cotton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cotton</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PushingSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PushingSystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plantations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Management</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Taylorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taylorism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CaitlinRosenthal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaitlinRosenthal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AccountingForSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AccountingForSlavery</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/25/417455657/after-ben-affleck-scandal-pbs-postpones-finding-your-roots" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/20</span><span class="invisible">15/06/25/417455657/after-ben-affleck-scandal-pbs-postpones-finding-your-roots</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Affleck_(planter)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas</span><span class="invisible">_Affleck_(planter)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Plantation_Record_and_Account_Book" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton</span><span class="invisible">_Plantation_Record_and_Account_Book</span></a></p><p><a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/1090005373" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">search.worldcat.org/title/1090</span><span class="invisible">005373</span></a></p><p><a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/slavery-under-the-pushing-system-why-systematic-violence-became-a-necessity.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/human-interest/2015/</span><span class="invisible">08/slavery-under-the-pushing-system-why-systematic-violence-became-a-necessity.html</span></a></p>