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Heather Cox Richardson: She’ll Write You a Letter
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
The Power of the Elites
In this chapter, they discuss a speech given by James Henry Hammond in 1858 about the power of the South Carolina region due to their cotton production. Hammond asserts that society is structured in a way that the elites, like him, have the right and duty to direct the labor of the lower classes to amass wealth and advance society.
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