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S4 E3: The Cotton Empire

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The Big Picture Takeaway From Carrey Lee Merritt's Work

Sally Kohn: I think the message really from carrey lee merritt's work is important, because what it shows is that the people who had real power in this country weren't just leveraging racesim is, sexism, iean. The project of minority rule went even further and disfranchised people like poor white men. She says they didn't bring anything to the table that the ruling class wanted at that point. And yet money came in, including investment from banks in places like new york, london, amsterdam and state governments. But that was because people saw the opportunity to turn the united states into this vast cott production machine at the expense of

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