Matthew Desmond's arguments, featured in the New York Times, explore how slavery laid the foundation for contemporary American capitalism.
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Matthew Desmond's arguments, featured in the New York Times, explore how slavery laid the foundation for contemporary American capitalism.
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Desmond's work connects slavery to modern American capitalism, discussed in the NYT.1 source
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Matthew Desmond
American sociologist
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New York Times
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Abraham Lincoln
president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
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Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)