MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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"After Slavery" (in Africa itself)
By artappraiser on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 4:56pm |By Toby Green @ Aeon.com, March 30
Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement
I highly recommend this historical analysis, skillfully written to be easy to read, which readjusts the whole frigging standard "narratives" with nuance of reality.
Green is professor of precolonial and lusophone African history and culture at King’s College, London. He is the author of A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (2019) and The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality (forthcoming, April 2021)
URL:
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-end-of-atlantic-slavery-paved-a-path-to-colonialism
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