Abolition of Slavery - A Critical Perspective

The idea that the land belongs to those who work it disturbingly parrots loccian justifications for seizing native land as property earned through one's labor in clearing and cultivating virgin land. For writers on the prison industrial complex, illegality and other forms of slavery, we urge you to consider how enslavement is a twofold procedure, removal from land and the creation of property, land and bodies. Abolition means self possession, but not necessarily object possession, repatriation, but not reparation.