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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Importance of Cotton Production in the Industrial Revolution

In the 19th century, when we think of industry getting going, it's the cotton textile mills. We're talking about a time when 90% of Americans enslaved and free were farmers. Most people were self-sufficient in food. There is a vast internal market in the United States of foodstuffGoing from Ohio to New York City. The cities have to eat from somewhere.

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