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  1. Timely academic history article from @AaronRoyHall: "Slavery was an instrument with which states governed rather than simply a subject to govern." @AaronRoyHall/1141466904281919489
    1. …in reply to @wcaleb
      PS. The behavior of individual CSA states during the Civil War (a subject that needs further study) suggests that the use of slavery by states to build infrastructure would only have continued had the CSA won, as I argue here: wcaleb.org/blog/beyond-confederate-failure