Platinum Jubilee, Sordid Slavery
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Atlantic Triangle - What Is It?
Sugar cane was basically an addiction that was foisted on europeans by the plantations. The brit's arrived first, and they thought, lo, what do we do? These are mosquito laden, umbel lievably inclement places,. full of diseases that we can't figure out. So originally they wanted to settle like america and have settled our families and bring them over. But they realize that nobody wants to settle there. They figured out, we need to get labor from somewhere. And they created what's called the atlantic triangle.
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