They're twin myths -- the Lost Cause that slavery was a benign peculiar institution in the South and that the North's hands were clean. -OS
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"Molasses to Rum to Slaves," from the musical 1776 explains it all.
aug 14, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Two recent works: Seth Rockman's "Plantation Goods," and John Bardes' "The Carceral City," are a fine set of companion readings on the deep regional inter-connections and continuities of ante-bellum Northern & Southern commercial and criminal justice systems. Can't recommend them highly enough.
aug 13, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
The difference is that most northerners will admit the north had its hands dirty with slavery. They won't admit it still does, but they'll admit it used to. There's a zillion assholes in the south who still insist slavery was good for black people b/c it "got them out of Africa." 🙄
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Originally Bristol RI was the most prosperous city in America, and it was entirely due to the slave trade coming through there.
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Back in the original Bristol, UK, they get SO mad when you remind em what made this place rich
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They're not exactly thrilled about it in Rhode Island, either. But nobody denies it. Everyone is like "holy shit! That's fucking awful!" Nobody will admit that there's a much more subtle, more economic form of slavery going on right now, of course. They get VERY upset if you talk about that.
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