THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The Puritans never laugh at executions
Chapter 5
Meanwhile, the Spanish had established colonies in California and Texas,
2qIn addition to rFlorida,
3sAnd the French had claimed most of the upper and middle part of North America,
4And the southern portions of North America were filling up with settlers from England and Ireland,
5tPlus a lot of slaves shipped over in chains from Africa,
6uSo that they could help build enormous cotton and tobacco plantations for their new masters,
7Who had come to America to be free.
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