British 'How to' Book on Exploitation

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British 'How to' Book on Exploitation

Scott's father wanted him to remember where he came from as he

achieved success in the United States and raised a family here.

 

One of the items he left for Scott in his will was a book originally

published in London in 1794 that reads like an instruction manual on

how to colonize and exploit the west coast of Africa.

 

The book, "An Essay on Colonization," written by C.B. Wadstrom and

reprinted in 1968, includes maps of the African coast and sobering

illustrations of how to properly load Africans into a slave ship.

 

The book is a powerful reminder to Scott of the colonial legacy

Africa endures even today, and he makes a point of sharing it with

friends and visitors.

 

At the same time, though, Scott has begun drafting his own

counterpoint to that history, one in which an African native son who

makes good in the promised land returns home to pass down a more

hopeful legacy.

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