MDDM related book reference

[Doug Millison]

Oh, well.

>"... Africans who came to the Americas constituted not merely a "labor
>force," which in the context of slavery in the Americas connotes physical,
>not intellectual labor. The transatlantic slave trade also involved the
>very deliberate selection of Africans on the basis of their specific
>knowledge and skills that were needed for the development of the Americas.
>Therefore, this largest human migration also constituted the world's first
>_massive brain drain and transfer of technology_ from Africa to the Americas,
>which established the basis for contemporary power relations in the
>Atlantic world."
>
>_African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas_
>Sheila S. Walker, ed., 2001


At 8:36 AM -0700 7/12/02, Doug Millison wrote:
>correcting some typos from this quote, from a book worth reading:
>