Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026These guys are taking profits from southern plantations and effectively running payday loan style mortgage schemes for settlers who want to buy land from the government. Crazy rates: 75% profit per year 100 0
Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Look at where these investors are from and where they’re buying up land to develop in the 1850s. This has a hand in cranking the flywheel of Native dispossession in the upper Midwest for sure 110 0
Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Southern investors are trying to offload northern land as quickly as possible but some are holding for a generation (weak enforcement of confiscation laws in the Civil War helps), which means they’re storing their profits from slavery in stolen Native lands late into the 19th c 121 0
