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Chapter 6 - Capitalism Did not realize that human capital was leveraged for credit. Having gone to business school, it made sense but it never crossed my mind the enormity and the value placed so highly on slavery. Moreover the carryover of the initial legislation and the impact it still has.
I also became curious as to why they didn't rotate the cotton crops to avoid soil exhaustion.