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Along with wet rice cultivation, commodity extraction and plantation economies have historically been the socioeconomic formations that permanently transformed landscapes. Plantation economies and extractive economies were based in part on slave labour. These economies profoundly transformed local and, in some cases, regional landscapes and their living environments. In contrast, the causal contribution of slavery to global change is difficult to determine empirically. In the context of Anthropocene scholarship, the emphasis on slavery contributes to a “provincialization” of the Anthropocene concept.
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Antweiler, C. (2023). Slavery. In: Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (eds) Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_250
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