S4 E2: "The Excess of Democracy"
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The Cotton Empire
The bill of rights doesn't solve these deeper problems with the constitution and minority veto that we're talking about here, right? It takes almost a century, in a massively bloody civil war, before black people become citizens. And it also takes a hundred and 30 years for women, white women, to get the right to vote, despite the bill of rights. Did the united states get better, more just more democratic? Or did we double down on conquest and exploitation? In episode three, the cotton empire.
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