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Jilly_in_VA

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3. I suppose

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:30 AM

Jul 2025

his next move will be "convict leasing" (see Gone With the Wind (the book, not the movie) with a cruel overseer cracking the whip. That way he can use the prisons for immigrants. The convicts can stay in the slave cabins, chained up.

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