This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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happy labor day to all the workers and parasites

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"My favorite of the two, however, had nothing good to say about the American security state."... excellent, generous and critical note from our @reproutopia.bsky.social www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...

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Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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