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Slavery and Racism

Published Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by Kevin Breathnach | E-mail this post

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Here's one for you. In a speech made yesterday, Jacques Chirac announced that France will, for now onwards, commemorate the abolishment of slavery every 10th May. In the speech he declared that "slavery fed racism." I'll quickly ask if perhaps it was the other way round; that racism fed slavery. I'm really just throwing it into the air without much thought; so discuss.

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