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How Twitter Explains the Civil War (and Vice Versa)
The proliferation of antebellum print is analogous to our own tectonic shifts in how people communicate and what they communicate about.
by
Ariel Ron
via
The Strong Paw Of Reason
on
January 6, 2022
How Slavery Haunts Today’s Big Debates About Federal Spending
John C. Calhoun knew what a strong federal government might do.
by
Ariel Ron
via
Slate
on
September 22, 2021
Slavery, Technology and the Social Origins of the US Agricultural State
Ariel Ron discusses the rise of the agricultural state in his book, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic.
by
Ariel Ron
via
Broadstreet
on
September 3, 2021
America Cannot Bear to Bring Back Indentured Servitude
It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.
by
Ariel Ron
,
Dael Norwood
via
The Atlantic
on
March 28, 2018
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We Can’t Blame the South Alone for Anti-Tax Austerity Politics
The legacy of slavery is often invoked to explain the stunted welfare state. But the strongest resistance to taxation and redistribution came from the Northern ruling class.
by
Noam Maggor
via
Jacobin
on
November 15, 2021
In the Common Interest
How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South.
by
Nic Johnson
,
Chris Hong
,
Robert Manduca
via
Boston Review
on
May 18, 2021
