mibwright on Nostr: Americans also like denying how important tobacco was in the early colonial/US ...
Americans also like denying how important tobacco was in the early colonial/US economy.
Schlepping tobacco isn't as bad as slavery, but… it still kills a lot of people, two centuries later.
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