Slavery is a social phenomenon traversing all times, cultures, and geographies which is practiced widely even today. The heritage of the slave trade and the uncanny wiping out of many Afro‐Latin American populations at the end of the nineteenth century through either war, criminalization, or pauperization sometimes acquires the characteristic of a veritable intellectual blockade which the current discourse of multiculturalism (which inherits the consolatory function of abolitionism) tries to appease.
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