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Yes, the spelling is correct! This is one of those words that looks fat-fingered; and no, it’s not equivalent to that indecipherable Trumpian “covfefe’. It’s a real word. I first encountered the word while reading Trouillot, Michel-Rolph’s “Haiti: State Against Nation. The Origin and Legacy of Duvalierism, pg 57”. It’s a medieval term for a

Disembedding refers to the way in which contemporary social practices can no longer be primarily defined by their grounding, or embeddedness, in the local context of a restricted place and time. When something is disembedded, it is moved from a concrete, tangible, local context to an abstract or virtual state. Examples: Slavery in the new

a contract or convention between Spain and another power or company or individual for furnishing slaves for the Spanish dominions in America

Source: Inspired by a conversation with Historian Dr. Alexis, Yveline Since it was whites who enslaved blacks, whites fearing blacks should be contextualized and held with a high degree of skepticism. After all, blacks were the captives of whites for centuries. If one group should fear the other, the enslaved have a legitimate claim to

A mercantilist economic policy term; for example, France’s monopoly on colonial trade

militarized agriculture

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manumission of a person freed from 1793