Coach Sankhavaram ®

Slavery impoverished everybody.

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Jun 6 at 3:59pmWeb
Show threadReginaldJun 6
@paninid It amazes me that the Southern White working class has never connected the dots and realized that slavery was an attack on the value of their labour and economic power as well as being a crime against humanity.
Show threadPoloniousmonkJun 6

@raganwald @paninid

I think it's time for LBJ to break it down again:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

Show threadDaryl76679Jun 7
@raganwald @paninid Bacon’s Rebellion is proof of this. The indentured servants rebelled and the elites refocused on slaves because they were easier to control.
Show threadSir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonJun 6

@paninid 💯
#TheRevolutionWillBeMemeticized & #TheRevolutionWillBeFederated

#ResINT #slavery #history #meme #memes

Show threadshemJun 6

@paninid like the Barbary and Ottoman slavers?

It's a good point though because most Transatlantic slaves went to south America and those countries are still impoverished.