Platinum Jubilee, Sordid Slavery
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Extractive Colonies of the Caribbean
Sugar cane is a massively labor intensive industry. And so the colonizers came here and built an extracted colony where they can grow sugar using relatively free labor. I mean, the only cost the pad was to pay for the either the slaves or the indented was like my forefathers. But we were all extractive. The institutional constructs in an extractive country are not the same as a set a country. One of the reasons why astro became so powerful,. it was because in his country there was still so much inequality Where, you know, the americans used cuba kind of like the lagasyeah. No, absolutely.
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