The colorline is the constitutive contradiction of the market. Without the colorline there is no market. The market requires ownership, and this ownership is an ownership of people that is displaced onto an ownership of things. What are these things other than the crystallized labors of laborers past, other than accumulated, dead, labor? The Middle Passage is the primal scene of accumulation that became these United States. As we follow the mark of the black, it leads backward along the timeline, as do all marks, to a primal scene. The scene is played out at the far points of memory and speculation; in this case, our case, the primal scene of accumulation is the Middle Passage and the marking of the body as white-over-black.

— Antiblackness by Moon-Kie Jung, Joao H. Costa Vargas (Page 86)