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Straw Man

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7. I believe the reference is to slavery.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 01:20 AM
Jan 17

The south's cotton economy was a large part of the expansion of American power, but I would assert that the handwriting was on the wall for the southern slave-labor agricultural model once the Industrial Revolution reared its head.

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