How did the legacies of chattel slavery come to shape an imperialist project that had initially been conceived of in perhaps more civilizational terms? How did colonialists understand and organized colonialism in increasingly racialized terms? And also, importantly, how did anti colonial thinkers across the black atlantic develop a shared analysis of colonialisms origins its ongoing nature.
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 episode from the archives.
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