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The Davidian Revolution

In Our Time

Smithers - Is There a Trading Liberty?

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Each borough had a district delineated on the map by the king around it in which it was illegal to buy or sell. Smithers, so you didn't have to do that in your own little village. You could take that up to the borough and leave your tire time to do more with your land and so on. Sometimes i tell my students that burgesses are time share slaves. They do the kind of specialist work that a slave might do on a farm, but they're now co owned by everybody, potentially.

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