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@trentonsperry oh yeah, i’m actually reading that right now, and it’s absolutely right. increased cotton production — and skyrocketing demand for cotton — fuels the massive expropriation of native land — PolitiTweet.org

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yep. this is a horrible way to put it, but basically, planters in the oldest slaveholding states — maryland and virginia specifically — sold their “surplus” to the western frontier of slavery via the coastal traffic from baltimore/hampton roads to savannah/new orleans — PolitiTweet.org