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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie

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

b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie

and of course, the explosion in the number of enslaved people in the south — plus the fact that, as all of this is happening, enslaved Africans in Haiti have won their independence in a bloody fight for liberation — makes the planter class unbelievably paranoid and aggressive — PolitiTweet.org