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“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate.”

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Book:The Chaneysville Incident
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David Bradley

David Bradley is an engineer, with the exact birth and death dates unknown. more

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