The Wines of Empire
KPFA - Against the Grain
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What We Know About Labor in Wine Production in the British Colonies
British settlers didn't understand that you had itinerant people who were using land for hunting. They mistook that to mean that the land was an occupied, and that it therefore belonged to no one. There are different degrees to which the British feel that indigenous people are people they have to reckon with on a diplomatic level. In Australia and South Africa, there was no real attempt to work with indigenous people to define legally what their claims to land were.
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