agricultural history

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/21/2020
  

  Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans

  It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/29/2020
  

  The Government Must Pay People to Stay Home

  by Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The earliest effective government responses to epidemic illness in the United States came not in the context of human health, but in the context of livestock.