Empire of Cotton
Sven Beckert talked about his book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, about the origins of the global cotton trade and…
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2014-01-11T20:19:22-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a95/20140111202132002_hd.jpg"White America -- most of it -- came to embrace King in the same way that most white south Africans came to embrace Nelson Mandela--grudgingly and gratefully, retrospectively, selectively, without grace but with considerable guile. By the time they realized their dislike of him was spent and futile, he'd created a world in which admiring him was in their own self-interest. Because, in short, they had no choice."
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"White America -- most of it -- came to embrace King in the same way that most white south Africans came to embrace Nelson Mandela--grudgingly and gratefully, retrospectively, selectively, without grace but with considerable guile. By the time they realized their dislike of him was spent and futile, he'd created a world in which admiring him was in their own self-interest. Because, in short, they had no choice." close
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