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Slavery and the Law: A Reply
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2011
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I have come to learn that unless one does it in unabashedly critical terms, including “slavery” and “Tannenbaum” in the same sentence is an intellectual exercise fraught with perils. The sole mention of Tannenbaum elicits images of benevolent Spanish and Portuguese masters in contrast to cruel Anglo-Saxon slaveowners, or of rigid dichotomies between racist North America and racially harmonious Latin America. These images clearly influence the comments of my critics, even though they have limited relevance for the central arguments of my article.
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