Bob Marley and the Wailers: Uprising (Island)
Vivien Goldman, NME, 5 July 1980
"But even without the forceful pressures of the slaves, the slave system was collapsing surreptitiously from within..."
(The Caribbean: Franklin W Knight: Oxford University Press)
Total word count of piece: 693
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