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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
We're to believe cotton was so essential that Whitney is one of a handful of inventors whose names everyone learns along with Edison and Bell, and yet that the forced labor institution that necessitated it was fringe and unprofitable and the realm of a "backwards" region. Ok. — PolitiTweet.org