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...themselves as a group) of all western European peoples. Thus the French, Germans, English, etc. would fight each other and among themselves, but came to see slavery as a fate reserved for others ? or non-Europeans. The concept of "insider" gradually came to encompass the whole of the sub-continent...
...ELTIS: To continue from the previous answer, the insider-outsider divide was, for whatever reason, much more localized in sub-Saharan Africa. "Africa" as a concept had no meaning for early modern Africans, so that the answer to the question of how could Africans enslave other African, is that they did not know they were African. Thus, on the coast both Europeans and Africans traded outsiders. In addition slavery in Africa was an important method of recruitment for the kinship group ? and the kin group was perhaps more important than the individual as the basic unit of society. Slaves conferred...
...routine, according to a civilian interpreter who accompanied the 3/ 504th on its rounds, that locals, including women and children, would be ordered to lay on the ground for up a half-hour in sub-freezing weather. Guns were trained on them by G.I.s, and any questions would be met with a firm combat boot on the back, applying steady pressure...
...sides. The Hector family watched the hectoring in a daze, Brenda holding on to her young daughter like a bag of flour. And when you're in the drum you can't hear yourself speak, which was on display again today as the governor repeatedly referred to the "sub-lim-in-able" message in his advertising. Earlier, Bush had denied a Vanity Fair report that he might have dyslexia...
...some great things from different people," Wheaton said. "It was nice to be able to sub through the whole roster, and not have it show on the field...