The coloniality of planting: legacies of racism and slavery in the practice of botany

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Botany, or the practice of botany, might at first appear to be a passive, peaceful, or even benign activity. But in fact, it was a practice absolutely integral to the expansion of empire. As a scientific discipline, botany emerged as a consequence of the exploratory…
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