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What was the Civil War about? In a word, slavery. The driving force in American politics in the decades after the American Revolution was the rise of an arrogant, ruthless, parasitic oligarchy in the South, built on God-ordained economic inequality.

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This book, writes reviewers Perry and Gabriele, "showcases the agency and power of Ethiopia and Ethiopians at the time and renders Europe as it was seen from East Africa, as a kind of homogenous (if interesting) mass of foreigners."

Like so many immigrants before them, the half-dozen workers’ sudden and violent death as a result of the Dali disaster, highlighted the precarity of their lives in a nation that both relies on — and reviles them.

All we have is our movements and the power we build together