On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:37 PM, c b wrote:
...many farmers and other poor people were forced to give up
supplies to the revolutionary army in exchange for promissory notes
that
were nearly worthless until the federal government assumed state
debts...
by which point most people's notes had sold them out of desperation to
speculators for pennies on the dollar.
I thought others would get a kick out of that.
CB: I got a kick out of it. Also, the generation that put the First
Amendment in the Constitution did not consider that Tories had freedom
of speech to advocate return to British rule.
Nor that blacks had any sort of freedom except the freedom to work for
their masters, nor that Native Americans had freedom even to live.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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