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Decolonizing the Mind

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Importance of Understanding African Slavery

The identity of Europe as modern is closely tied to slavery and the slave trade. In order for European subject to be imagined as free, you also have to give us examples of people who don't have those qualities. So it's almost like African culture then became the shadow side of this flourishing of European culture. There's a direct connection between the two.

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