“To suggest, for example, that historical figures that were involved in colonial atrocities were just men of their time, acting in keeping with the standards of their time, ignores the embodiedness and coevalness of contingent and entangled temporalities. This argument discounts both the humanity and temporalities of those, in every time, found on the other
side of the abyssal line. The enslaved and colonised were also ‘men’. They were also of their time.”