The Importance of Slavery in America's Economic Success

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Dostoevsky had fascinating yeah well I encourage a reader a listener is to read certainly Brother Scarmont so it's only about 950 pages. Read the Constance Garnet translation because that's what I have and I still think it's a pretty good translation. It does strike me as little bit odd why would people thousands or actually millions of them make the same mistake all the timewhy would they go and enslave people?

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