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Worldmaking after Empire with Adom Getachew

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Anti Slavery Is Already Written Into the Scramble for Africa

Slavery charge is deflected from broader question of labor exploitation in colonized territories. Slavery itself was disconnected from colonial labor and cast as an atavistic hold over in backward societies. De boys said of li quote, her chief crime is to be black and poor in a rich, white world. And in precisely that portion of the world where color is ruthlessly exploited as a foundation for american and european wealth,. part of the whole colonial slave labor system.

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