Well, it was (your last paragraph) because it was the foundation of foreign trade. You go from exporting a bit of wool to slaves themselves and sugar and rum and coffee and cotton and made cotton goo… (View Post)
And insights like that volunteered by Big G are therefore interesting and illuminating, making the pile on all the more odd. I don't know what I am going to do. My headline position is: not vote, but… (View Post)