
The failings of emancipation
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The War Emancipation Model
The british empire designed a new kind of emancipation with new mechanisms and devices. Slave owners received financial compensation for the loss of cold slave property. The model was then used in france and in the netherlands and even in denmark, as a model for how empires would emancipate their enslaved populations. In the midst of that war, it was not the case that the enslaved won out. So here we have policy, government policy, as a very important domain in which, after the end of slavery, tha newly freed people,. by design, were yet again dispossessed, and the slave owners were yet again compensated. Then the final emancipation that i look at, which
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