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...Mother is a formidable presence: matronly, clipped, forever feeling slighted and insisting “she is not totally useless yet”. But she is also ruthlessly protective....
...Like the banjo, for instance, being invented by enslaved people in the Caribbean in the 17th century. But in fact, that doesn’t really come across quite so strongly in the album....
...America was built, its economy nurtured, its crops cultivated, its kitchens run, by the enslaved....
...The enslaved and their successors received nothing, in terms of money or apology....
...“The next time he was here it’d be something totally different. That’s how it worked.”...
...Their view is that eventually individuals will be faced with the unappetising choice of either being totally free but entirely without state protection, or entirely protected by the state but totally enslaved...
...And while that's totally reasonable, I think the roots are really critical....
...If I had a job that actually paid a salary I would totally take up residence.” He says that he doesn’t really live anywhere....
...“People are enslaved by this novelty,” said David Miller, a retired businessman. “But it’s not a novelty, it’s very serious.”...
...As in most dystopias, the television chips in with constant updates, and everyone is enslaved to an unseen master (“the great He”)....
...Now the nation is totally dependent on outside help, notably from its twin colonial masters – France, which dominated Haiti and enslaved its people for more than a century, and America, which occupied the...
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