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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The History of the United States

By 1850 our cotton experts were exports were larger than all of our other crops combined. Even if you want to forget about exports, industrialism began in the United States in the cotton mill that got its input from enslaved people and sold. New England was only able to participate in the 18th century merchant capitalist revolution by sending grain, wood, livestock,. Connecticut is cowboy country, but it was one of their main exports during the late 1800s.

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