An inquest into a presumption that outlived race science.
Every land grab opens with a word: the people on the land are declared less than people. Scholarship spent the next century testing the word, with the victim in the dock and the accuser writing the questions. The other method was always available: name the speaker, date the wound that followed, and ask what the violence was for.
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