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Worldmaking after Empire w/ Adom Getachew

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Anti Slavery Is Already Written Into the Scramble for Africa

Slavery charge isq deflected from the broader question of labor exploitation in colonized territories. While slavery itself wasi acted from colonial labor and cast as an atavistic hold over in backward societies. De boys said of liberia, 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 ruthless exploited as a foundation for american and european wealth,. part of the whole colonial slave labor system.

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