basquebromance
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The 1619 Project erroneously claims that a main point of the American Revolution was to protect slavery, and also cites junk statistics about the plantation economy in an effort to malign capitalism.
www.nytimes.com
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American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. (Published 2019)
Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.