Notes
1
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984).
2
The Dutch eventually found the slave trade to be not very not profitable, partly due to the high mortality rate of slaves when crossing the ocean; 30% of the slaves died on the ships.
3
Gloria Wekker, White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016).
Thanks to Natasha Marie Llorens for her long term guidance on finding the adequate words and feelings for this story.
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