6. How America’s Racist Roots Fueled a Predatory Bail Bond Industry, with Tricia Cleppe
Financial Feminist
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I've Learned So Much From You
In Bacon's Rebellion, enslaved people banded together with indentured servants to overthrow the Virginia government. The rich land owning whites came together and said, whatever the fuck just happened, we cannot let that happen again. And so they came up with this construct of the one drop rule, where if you have even one drop of indigenous blood or African blood in you, then you don't have access to these new set of benefits we're allowing white people to have.
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