Scholarly writing about slavery in the Americas—which has mostly centered on Black enslavement—has emphasized its economic value in building plantations, wealth, and American capitalism.
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Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.
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