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And the stereotypes still cast a shadow over the continent. Saul davids favourite books on south african history. The countrys diamond trade is known to have funded civil war and terrorism. The slave trade was banned throughout the british empire in 1807, and slavery itself abolished in 1833, although it persisted elsewherenotably in the southern.
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