The Debtor's Slavery

It Could Happen Here is a podcast about things being absolutely atrocious. This week, we trace through the history and class psychology of a kind of guy who was responsible to a greater extent than you think for some of the worst atrocities this world has ever seen. We're going to start with the archetypical debtor's slaver, her nan Cortez. Her nan Cortez managed to parlay an initially successful career as its adventurer into a slave plantation in Cuba after he helped after he helped conquer the island in 1511.