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Chapter 1, Democracy
Page 21
"Jefferson himself considered the people he enslaved in the coldest economic terms, saying he calculated that a "woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm. What she produces is an addition to capital,..."⁵¹"

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DEMOCRACY Nikole Hannah-Jones
"Following Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 ... the colony passed slave codes to permanently enshrine legal and social distinctions between Black and white residents that ensured that all white people ... permanently existed in a status above all Black people."

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Chapter 5, DISPOSSESSION by Tiya Miles
Page 140:
"As Calloway succinctly put it in
The Indian World of George Washington:
"The Revolution was not only a war for independence and a new political order; it was also a war for the North American continent."¹⁴"

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Chapter 5, DISPOSSESSION by Tiya Miles
Page 140
"as the historian Jeffrey Ostler has elucidated, eastern elites such as George Washington held financial interests in these westerly lands that could not be exploited while the Proclamation of 1763 prevented freewheeling land sales.¹³"

November 24th, 2014

With regard to Black American citizens, please refer to experts, such as:
The Black Reparations Project
by
William Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen, Lucas Hubbard

From Here to Equality
by
William Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones

The White Bonus/Tracie McMillan
Heather McGhee
"In this eye-opening examination into the tangible and intangible advantages of being born white in America, McMillan uses her own family's story and those of everyday white Americans to quantify the Cash Value of whiteness. An important contribution."

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Chapter 18, JUSTICE by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Page 476:
"Citizens inherit not just the glory of their nation but its wrongs, too. A truly great country does not ignore or excuse its sins. It confronts them, and then works to make them right."

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Ch. 9, SELF-DEFENSE by Carol Anderson
Page 262
"wealthy landowners had caught wind of the mobilization and sent a local deputy, a detective for the railroad, and a Black prison trusty, Kid Collins, as one participant in the meeting said,"to break up the meeting or to shoot it up.""

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CAPITALISM by Matthew Desmond
Page 183
"Given the choice between parity with Black people - by inviting them into unified unions - and poverty, white workers chose poverty, spoiling the development of a multiracial mass labor movement in America. That decision wrote W.E.B. Du Bois"

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Chapter 1, DEMOCRACY by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Pg 32
"If the formerly enslaved and their descendents became educated, if we thrived in the jobs white people did, if we excelled in the sciences and arts, then the entire rationale for how this nation had allowed slavery would collapse."

@nhannahjones #1619Project
"I was built for this!"

The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism
Gerald Horne
Pg 158
"Sam Houston...asserted challengingly that Britain "knows very well that a slave population will develop the resources of a new country in one eighth of the time it would take by free labor"⁵⁹"

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Chapter 2, RACE by Dorothy Roberts
"quoting Angela Y. Davis: "Black women have always embodied, if only in their physical manifestation, an adversary stance to white male rule and have actively resisted its inroads upon them and their communities in both dramatic and subtle ways.""

Isabel Wilkerson
"Caste working exactly as designed"
"We have seen caste in action with our very eyes"