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    A common response

    was to call African ėslaveryķ ģbenignī

    because it did not correspond to the

    Western model.

    But this was simply to apply

    Western concepts of

    ėslaveryķ and ėfreedomķ

    to institutions in other cultural

    and historical contexts and,

    perhaps worse,

    to treat the African phenomenon as

    a deviation from the Western one

    ńthe latter

    being seen as the true norm

    Igor Kopytoff and Suzanne Miers, 1977

    Chartres Cathedral, circa 1220

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