/lit/ - Literature

>>18571054
Got some of the words from 1984 yes.

Pyrrhic
Harangue
Tawdry

>>17137203
>garrulous
kek but new word get

>>12325778
>when as a rule nobody gave a damn about uncivilized blacks.
Where did the abolitionist movement came from, then?
There were far more people writing about the need protect Africans from slavers and to bring them into civilization, then people who dismissed negroes altogether as savages.
Go and look at contemporary writing for yourself.

>Belgians have more cause to feel guilty about what they did in Africa than any other country, and this was firmly established at the time that book was published.
Why would someone feel guilty about something they didn't personally did, contribute to, or maintained?
Do you feel guilty when a parliament member makes an offence, because your taxes fund him?