--Nathan Huggins, Black Odyssey, 1977.
i found this as one of the (three) epigraphs to The Making of New World Slavery by Robin Blackburn.
i thought, our best hope is still that our talents and labors will bring a decent price.
Monday, January 02, 2006
marketplace
...what modernism and Western capitalist expansion meant to traditional peoples. In the New World, people became items of commerce, their talents, their labors, and their produce thrown into the market place, where their best hope was to bring a decent price.
--Nathan Huggins, Black Odyssey, 1977.
i found this as one of the (three) epigraphs to The Making of New World Slavery by Robin Blackburn.
--Nathan Huggins, Black Odyssey, 1977.
i found this as one of the (three) epigraphs to The Making of New World Slavery by Robin Blackburn.
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very true and now that I am a gradstudent I am constantly thinking if my skill, at the end of the day, will bring me a decent price! :) I sometimes worry that it will not.
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