Illustration by Audrey Estok.
The Rebel Alliance fought for freedom, but this freedom was predicated on the automation of labor—on droids.
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Edward Guimont is an assistant professor of world history at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. His dissertation was on the invention and deployment of mythical histories of Great Zimbabwe by European settlers and African nationalists in southern Africa during the period of colonial rule. He has also written on the history of the Flat Earth, connections of nationalist movements across the late British Empire, conspiracy theories, and H. P. Lovecraft.