vapu krishatwam,
vadane prasannam
nada spudatwam
nayanesu nirmalam
arogatha
bindu jayam
agni deepanam
nadee vishudhir
hathayoga lakshanam
Did more reading on slave societies. The West Indies and Haiti in particular as case study. While moving from trifunctional to ownership society, compensation for slaves was never discussed, only slave owners were compensated. Haiti went onto pay till 1950 a debt to France. Now that US is repaying Japan but not Mexico or previous slaves, Germany and France to old Jewish property owners from WWII, the question is whether France needs to compensate Haiti. Just like the transformation of Sweden from extreme inegalitarian to socialist, Democratic party went from fighting for slave owners in the civil war to being the party of the New Deal, voting rights and finally Obama. The ideological changes and influence of events is fascinating.
Will continue this chapter tomorrow and get to the colonial social structure in the next chapter.
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