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#21 Whose America?: Prologue

The Martyr Made Podcast

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Early 'Nineteenth Century' America

By the early nineteenth centu during that first generation after the american revolution, direct enslavement was largely a consta condition now inflicted solely on africans. The lives of a majority of poor white southerners were, at least in a material sense, very often little better than those of slaves. Most of them sc ched out a living on subsistence farms, always at risk of debt and peonage. In the north, the budding industrial revolution was changing the nature of work altogether and generating a massive demand for labor in these growing cities. By this point, had managed to create a mixed labor economy in many places that somewhat approximated the utopia invisioned by k

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