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The People's Line

You people are totally exaggerating the role that economics plays in racism

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Carl Beijer
Jul 25, 2015
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“Bacon’s Rebellion sent shock waves through the ranks of the ruling classes. Many feared that some future insurrection, perhaps larger and better organized, might succeed. What could be done to avert such a calamity? Their strategy became something akin to the military maxim ‘divide and conquer.’ In the words of historian Edmund Morgan: ‘For those with …

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