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Enslaved Africans - The History of American Food
In telling the history of american food, you really show how crops were cultivated through the brutal exploitation of slave labor. Oming that story readyin capsulates one of the themes of your book, which is power. And power dynamics are an important part of social science research. Can you disentangle some of this for us? Well, i think, i think you've said it rather eloquently. It's, if you think about enslavement,. If you think about it, certainly, i talk about it in united states in terms, if you will, it is absolutely hemispheric. The thing is that enslaved africans were the agricultural workers. They were the people who
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