During the 11th and 12th centuries, in an age before gunpowder, the Normans were able to conquer England by constructing forts (motte-and-bailey “castles”) on newly occupied land.

The exact same method – colonisation by fort-building – was employed in Southern Appalachia by land-hungry Americans in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War...

Read more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2022/11/06/the-mechanics-of-colonialism/

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During the 11th and 12th centuries, in an age before gunpowder, the Normans were able to conquer England by constructing forts (motte-and-bailey “castles”) on newly occupied land.

The exact same method – colonisation by fort-building – was employed in Southern Appalachia by land-hungry Americans in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War...

Read more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2022/11/06/the-mechanics-of-colonialism/

#BeforeWeWereWhite #AmericanHistory #Appalachia #AmericanFrontier @histodons

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1870 "Map of Predominating Sex", is 150-year-old social analytics.

The darker the shaded area, the greater the disparity between reported male and female population of a given area. In other words, in 1870, many self-described male Americans were:

1) Going without sex

2) Having sex with other men

3) Sharing women (including sex workers)

4) Taking partners from unenumerated population groups (i.e. slaves and indigenous women)

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