#beverly lemire

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Michel-Rolph Trouillot wrote of the "Certain Idea of Man", which emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, stating "The more European merchants and mercenaries bought and conquered other men and women, the more European philosophers wrote and talked about Man" —or a certain idea of (White) man. Subaltern Europeans manned slave ships, fought in colonial contests, and seized lands from Indigenous communities, often learning of their White status through these encounters.

Beverly Lemire, "Material Technologies of Empire: The Tobacco Pipe in Early Modern Landscapes of Exchange in the Atlantic World" (2021)