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“I explore different vignettes in the borderlands that only make sense if you begin with the realisation that the United States was weak, relative to those competing imperial powers. It was also weak, relative to some pretty powerful Indigenous nations. There were enslaved people who ran away into the borderlands, because the United States couldn’t exercise much power there. It’s not as if the United States was marching in and establishing its sovereignty through imperial military might. They didn’t have the power to do that.” Read more...
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