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The book "White Trash" by Nancy Isenberg explores the class views of all the founders, she excerpts a small portion of her work here: https://www.google.com/amp
by travmatt 10y ago
The book "White Trash" by Nancy Isenberg explores the class views of all the founders, she excerpts a small portion of her work here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/book-party/wp/2016/06/23/a-cultural-and-political-history-of-white-trash-america/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...
- narrowrail 10y agoThis is only tangentially related, but can you determine what was the highest percentage of the U.S. that was enslaved at a given point? My best approximation is the slave pop. topped out at 10% ~1861, which sounds like a lot less than "the majority."
- travmatt 10y agoMy assumption would be around there. Who said slaves were "the majority" of the country?