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With What Must Slavery Begin? — differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies
This book’s immanent critique of slavery suffers, as with Marx and Hegel
before it, from a problem of “beginnings,” which, Marx writes, “are always
difficult in all sciences.” In assessing slavery’s...