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The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow

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The Story of the Wogies

On northwest coast, the pacific coast oft north america and canada, there were societies going back centuriesan hunting gotherers. But at a point you go geographically southwards to roughly weathered the chetco nation world existing at that time, slavery kind of fizzles out. And this story is a fabulous little morality tale about all the terrible things that might to you if you try to capture other people and make them work for you. So it's a kind of cautionary tale not to enslave people. It turns out almost nobody has actually asked the question, how did this happen? How do you end up with two so different moral and ethical and social systems?

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