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Once able to mobilize a subjected labour force to cultivate cotton on the stolen ‘ghost acreage’ of the US South, the cotton capitalists were on their way to achieving a global commercial ascendancy, opening the global "great divergence" between rich and poor countries.
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By the 1860s Cuba had a free population of about 1 million, enjoying some of the highest per capita incomes in the world ($129.94); lower than that for the free population of the United States ($144) but slightly above that for Britain ($126).
— Mar 08, 2026 11:35AM
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"During Reconstruction, whites had burned down black schoolhouses. Afterwards this was no longer necessary, since the same effect could be achieved by cutting to the bone state educational finance to black education."
— Mar 08, 2026 11:03AM
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such legendary heroes of the war to free the slaves as Sherman engaged in the methodical genocide of the Indian nations. By 1885 some 13 million American Indians had been killed, a number roughly equivalent to the total number of Africans brought to the New World in the whole history of the Atlantic slave trade.
— Mar 08, 2026 09:10AM
