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So... they weren't even slavers, they just bought cotton? This is like California trying to pay reparations. A state where slavery was never legal, taxing peop
by primax 4y ago
So... they weren't even slavers, they just bought cotton?
This is like California trying to pay reparations. A state where slavery was never legal, taxing people who never owned slaves to give money to people who were never slaves.
- yieldcrv 4y agoI would personally like to see the records of who got paid for indigenous scalps in California I bet we will see some familiar last names from currently prominent families, like from the militias deputized in the Mendocino war I bet there are records in Sacramento Could spark a relevant reckoning