Silvia Federici, in her book Caliban and the Witch, connects the emergence of capitalism with the ideology of the witch hunts and describes them as a strategy to control and, if necessary, eliminate women. Witch hunts literally terrorized women into submission, removed them from the social sphere, and resulted in thousands of deaths across Europe and then the colonies. Over time, these ideas about inherent evil and dangerous powers were transferred from women to Black and Indigenous peoples, terrorizing us into submission, removing us from the social sphere, and resulting in thousands of
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