African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history
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The Seeds Are Sown for Modern Racism
When is it that the seeds are sown for our notions of modern racism? Well I think that that certainly is occurring by probably the late 17th century. That is a century where we can say English or British, we include Scotland and elsewhere, human trafficking really takes off. These were essentially kind of money making factories in which human labour, human lives were not valued any more than an animal might be valued," he says.
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