British India 1860
In 1861, people held other people as property: slaves that could be raped, murdered, or starved at will. Nations were at war or preparing for war with dreams of empire: The USA seeing its “manifest destiny”1 as reaching the Pacific Ocean, while Great Britain dreamed of expanding beyond the confines of Alexander of Macedon’s empire. This lust for land and determination to denude the world of its temporal riches, stripping bare woods and polluting waters while heaving holocausts against those who were “the White man’s burden”2 was an infection around the world, a world crafted by the most unsavory of nations from the USA to Great Britain that had under its scourging power hundreds of millions of people from India to outposts of what would be known as the Brit...
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