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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

And it’s been a lot of years, indeed, over a millennium and counting.

Via The Japan Times, UGa. professor Stephen Mihm offers a brief history of the chattel slavery of African people. He notes that

Most historians date the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the year 1500, when Portuguese traders sailed down the coast of Africa. Though they initially sought to trade for gold and spices, they quickly shifted their attention to enslaved human beings, whom they put to work in the Canary Islands, which became a kind of laboratory for extracting as much labor as possible from African captives.

Methinks it a timely and worthwhile read, as the myth of racial superiority created to justify it continues to poison the polity.

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