@Clutha @Radical_EgoCom If you think about who founded the US, Puritans and slaveholders, it's not shocking.

@quadrivial @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social You left out the criminals (Georgia) and the poor (indebted servitude) and the slaves. Not everyone had a choice.

@rrb @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom I mentioned slaveholders as founders, so I assumed the presence of slaves. I didn't mention indentured servants and criminals, so you are correct there. I suppose I was thinking of a particular definition of "founder" as someone with the power to shape what became American society, but you're right in saying the 2 groups I ignored had influence on what America is today.

@quadrivial @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social The deep South makes more since if you remember the penal colonies

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