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Scars of bondage

>Banned and confiscated upon its initial publication in Guyana in 1973, this groundbreaking study of slavery by Tchaiko and Eusi Kwayana was eventually republished there twenty-five years later, but, until now, it has never been published in North America. In this remarkable work, the authors explore the social and economic violence visited upon Africans in Guyana from the period of enslavement to emancipation and the self-organized establishment of collectivized villages by Africans after emancipation—fourteen years before the Communist Manifesto was written!

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