Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations
The Good Fight
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The Origins of the Slavery Society in the United States
The first people setting up the society were English slave planters from the West Indies. They believed that they had won a libertarian struggle of the fittest on Barbados and to the winner go the spoils. So it was a society organized to benefit the people at the top, right? This is our society. There'll be no representation. We have the slave system. We'll control everything. And anyone who stands in our way will get rid of.
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