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August 16, 2019 at 5:36 PM

In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation, writes Matthew Desmond for the #1619Project. “Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.”

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American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.

Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.
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