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Take one word: “commissary.” The same word was used for sharecroppers, soldiers, and prisoners to get provisions. Modest means of sucking the poor into indebtedness. Coercing them to buy here, because where else are you going to go? Some people are required to do for their country without their country doing much for them.
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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