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u/Wegmarken · 45 pointsr/BlackPeopleTwitter

>Enthroning Kin Cotton, the cotton gin made the value of southern lands skyrocket and quickly dethroned rice and tobacco. King CoTton incessantly demanded more and more to stabilize its reign: more enslaved Africans, more land, more violence, and more racist ideas. Annual cotton production slammed through the ceiling of about 3,000 bales in 1790, reaching 178,000 bales in 1810 and more than 4 million bales on the eve of the Civil War. Cotton became America's leading export, exceeding in dollar value all exports...

Page 126. Footnote for this passage points to Peter Kochin's American Slavery and Holt's Children of Fire. Kendi gives a long and sustained analysis of the relationship between economics and slavery. I remember Zinn making similar points as well.

u/Dr_Scientist_ · 15 pointsr/AskALiberal
u/[deleted] · 6 pointsr/reddit.com

To me, exhaustive means more than one perspective, so in that spirit, here's your yin & your yang.

PS- Schweikert (co-author of the yang) was a college prof of mine. The man is so libertarian it hurts.

And a bonus fun fact, he got crabs once in his youth (while playing drums in a Communist rock band named Rampage) and, I shit you not, now tells the story to all of his classes in a canned lecture. Fun class, if you don't mind being graded on your political leanings.

u/thubbeyo · 1 pointr/Denmark

Fik [A People's History of the United Stats] (https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-1492-2001/dp/0060528427/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=) i julegave, og er lige gået igang med den. Jeg er vild med Amerikas historie, og kan ikke vente med at få den læst.